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Johnson & Cummings Are Waging War on the British State
James Wallbank explores how Systems Thinking can help the public to understand the methods of the Prime Minister and his chief advisor –and why they must not be mistaken for buffoons

EXCLUSIVE Gove's Data Control Coup Emerges from the Shadows
David Hencke explores the implications of one of the most extraordinary Government power grabs he has seen as a political reporter

All the Data in the World: The Dangers of Trump's Favourite Firm Going Global in a Crisis
Sam Bright tracks the global expansion of data mining company Palantir during the Coronavirus pandemic

Boris Johnson's Great Spaffometer
Stephen Colegrave tries to estimate how many billions the Prime Minister and his Government have wasted in their first year in power

EXCLUSIVE How Two Right-Wing Meme Merchants Scored a £3 Million Government Coronavirus Contract
Sam Bright tracks the rise of Topham Guerin, the New Zealand 'propaganda pair' in charge of the UK Government's online Coronavirus communications

The Mythical Nationalism of Trump and Modi Has Failed, So Now they're Waging War on their Own Citizens
India and America are suffering parallel slides towards authoritarianism, reports CJ Werleman

EXCLUSIVE Firm with Links to Huawei Given £3 Million Foreign Office Contract
A French-owned company is in bed with both Huawei and the Foreign Office, reports Sam Bright

Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Obliterate the Last Frontier in Privacy – Our Biological Selves?
COVID-19 is accelerating the attempts of big tech companies to harvest our data, writes Tanya O'Carroll.
EXCLUSIVE Right-Wing Propaganda Pair Paid £3 Million to Run Coronavirus Communications
Sam Bright reports on how two 20-something New Zealanders, allies of Lynton Crosby, were awarded a massive Government COVID-19 campaign contract
Facebook is Still Being Used to Rig Democracy
Caolan Robertson draws on his first-hand experience of stirring up right-wing political outrage for likes
The Government's Ten Biggest Coronavirus Lies Unmasked
With mounting scandals and inconsistencies over the Government's handling of COVID-19, Stephen Colegrave and Peter Jukes have compiled a list of its biggest falsehoods so far
EXCLUSIVE SAGEGATE – Part Three: Cummings and Johnson Defied Scientific Advisors by Lifting Restrictions Without Robust Track and Trace
The third part of Nafeez Ahmed's investigation shows how public health was sacrificed to ideology as the lockdown was eased
Hidden COVID-19 Data is Vote Leave Government's Political Weapon
With lockdown restrictions being eased, how can people make 'common sense' decisions around the Coronavirus risk in their area if accurate data is being kept from them?