Outside the system
Column / Investigation: Crypto Politics
Dark money, lobbying, regulatory capture, state institutions hollowed by donor factions, foreign interference, and the financialisation of political power.
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Deadly Lies: Ukraine on Tenterhooks as Putin and Trump Talk of Truces
In his latest dispatch, Chris York reports on overnight attacks on Kyiv, Trump’s diplomacy and the latest drone and media manoeuvres
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‘Why the Democrats Must Start Fighting Back Against Trump and Musk’
Former Obama and Clinton staffer Tom Malinowski tells Alexandra Hall Hall why the Democrats’ reluctance to push back against the Trump administration is only making things worse
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Civil Servants Felt Pressured Into Giving ‘Special Treatment’ to Conservative-Connected COVID PPE Suppliers
Private correspondence reveals officials felt threatened by firms benefiting from “back-scratching” by Conservative ministers
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‘Welcome to Soviet America’
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has exposed the need for major reform of the US political and constitutional system
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Funded by Tax Haven Linked Firms as Party Seeks Tax Exile Donors
The party is seeking overseas funding from those who are “unhappy with the amount of regulation and tax in the UK”
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Protest Crackdown in Britain Now Amounts to ‘State Repression’ And the Labour Government is Continuing the Trend, Warn Campaigners
Infringements on the right to protest have been ’emboldened’ by successive governments, report argues
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Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism
Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a member
