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June 2025

What happens when Silicon Valley runs the state?
Palantir, tech billionaires and why MAGA might spell with the death knell for America's empire, with Laleh Khalili.
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Peter Geoghegan
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Uncovered: How UK police are hiding their Palantir work
Civil liberties campaigners lodge formal complaint over secretive policing unit instructing forces to withhold information about US spy tech firm
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Jenna Corderoy
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Peter Geoghegan
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Disgraced Tory says banning MPs' second jobs would harm democracy
Plus: Why young men being drawn to the far-right, and peer complains to House of Lords about Britain’s “political influence bazaar”.
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Peter Geoghegan
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1:06:27
The curious case of Britain’s nightlife lobbyist-in-chief
Dr Michael Kill says he’s a UN rep, a university dean and that his lobby group represents major music industry players. But the facts — and the…
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Peter Geoghegan
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Trump's rolling revolution, with Anne Applebaum
A conversation with Autocracy Inc author on Trump, LA, and how we can resist the global authoritarian playbook
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Peter Geoghegan
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27:50
Reform UK promised huge donations - where are they?
Farage’s party is still reliant on cash from Richard Tice and familiar names
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Peter Geoghegan
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Revealed: “Shocking” scale of Big Tech’s influence over Labour
Science and technology secretary Peter Kyle asked Google boss to “sense check” AI policy and told Amazon he’d “advocate” for them to competition…
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Lucas Amin
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Peter Geoghegan
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The US Right Is Coming for the UK—With Crypto in Hand
Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and how authoritarian tech fantasies are becoming political reality, with Amy Westervelt
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Peter Geoghegan
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