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Trump, Cummings and Cambridge Analytica: The Digital Threat to Democracy
Tom Scott on how new revelations about voter suppression the US raise urgent questions about psychographic targeting of UK voters and plans to strip citizens of data protection rights

EXCLUSIVE Scamademics? Right-Wing Lobbying Groups Reviving ‘Herd Immunity’ in the UK
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a high-profile letter to Boris Johnson was based on ‘fringe pseudoscience’ and co-drafted by a Government advisor who downplayed the COVID-19 death toll

EXCLUSIVE ‘Like Fish Markets’: PPE Supplier Lifts the Lid on Government Procurement ‘Scramble’
A business owner asked to provide £22 million of PPE by the Government sheds light on the frantic, high-stakes process

EXCLUSIVE Government Spending on PPE Deals to Conservative Backers Rises to £364 Million
As the amount of taxpayers’ money the Government has awarded to Conservative donors and politicians in PPE procurement rises, health professionals continue to call for adequate protection as a second Coronavirus wave approaches

EXCLUSIVE Firm Owned By Conservative Donor Nets Additional £81.8 Million Government PPE Deals
The Government has awarded massive COVID-19 contracts to a firm owned by a Conservative backer without competition, reports Sam Bright

The Long Game: Two Year, £800 Million Contract For COVID-19 Home Testing
Sam Bright reports on how the small print of one Government contract reveals the true length of time it expects to be battling COVID-19

Meet the Anti-Mask Student Conservatives
Joe Molander speaks to young Tories who refuse to follow the Government's rules on masks

EXCLUSIVE Firm That Gave £400,000 to Conservatives Wins £93.8 Million Government PPE Deal
Another company with links to the Conservative Party has been awarded a massive PPE procurement contract, reports Sam Bright
Boris Johnson and the Politics of Perfidy
Alex Andreou looks at the treacherous debasement of British politics as the Government rushes headlong into a trade war with our biggest partner
The Last Stand of One Nation Conservatism
Sam Bright contends that Johnson's brand of radical Brexit fanaticism seeks to divide and conquer at the cost of national and even party unity
Braverman's Confidants: The Lawyers Spurring the Government to Break the Law
Byline Times reports on the legal minds helping the Vote Leave Government in its war against the judiciary
The Brexit Bill is Nothing to do with Northern Ireland or Trade – It Is About Power
Mike Buckley analyses another concerning aspect of the Government’s Internal Market Bill: the scale of the powers it confers on ministers and what this will mean for UK democracy
EXCLUSIVE Government Awards £122 Million PPE Contract to One-Month-Old Firm
New details of the procurement scandal emerge, after Boris Johnson is asked about the questionable awarding of Government contracts at Prime Minister’s Questions
Boris Johnson Under Pressure to Explain Questionable PPE Procurement Deals
Rushanara Ali MP has sent a letter to the Prime Minister, asking him to explain questionable COVID-19 contracts, including two deals exposed by Byline Times
Johnson Appoints Vote Leave Director to Boost Conservatives in Top Whitehall Jobs
The drive is as much aimed at reducing Labour-supporting individuals as trying to remove the “The blob”, reports David Hencke