Liz Truss’s ‘PopCons’: dark money in plain sight

It’s easy to laugh at the failed PM’s Popular Conservatives, but small groups backed by shady money have already reshaped our world

I bumped into a friend in a local coffee shop the other day. He told me he’d been enjoying this newsletter.

He also had some questions. How did I find stories? And how did I choose the ‘style’ to report them in?

The first question is simple (and complicated!) The stories on Democracy for Sale mostly come from the tools of the investigative journalist’s tr…