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'A Hard Rain': Johnson, Gove and Cummings Drive Britain Towards Elective Dictatorship
David Hencke reports on the radical moves to undermine parliamentary democracy by Boris Johnson's chief advisor and the Cabinet Office Minister
Behind the Red Wall: A Former BNP Councillor to Become Mayor of Stoke on Trent
Adrian Goldberg reports on how a cross-party deal with the Conservatives has brought back the spectre of the hard-right to a divided town
Automated Social Control: the Biases of the Algorithms
Almaz Ohene reports on how real-life structures of oppression are being replicated online through automated moderation and censorship
EXCLUSIVE ‘National Crime Agency Officials Investigating Me Are Brexiteers’, Claimed Brexit ‘Bad Boy’ Arron Banks
Byline Times reports on claims made by the businessman that the UK’s specialist law enforcement organisation was politically compromised in its dealings with him and his Brexit campaign group
EXCLUSIVE ‘Betrayal’ and Intrigue: A Russian Politician’s Life in Exile
Kseniya Kirillova hears warnings from a dissident former Russian politician, whose father is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, of renewed attempts to subvert democracy.
SWEENEY INVESTIGATES: What Connects Robert Jenrick to the Gambino Crime Family and Putin's Oligarchs?
John Sweeney investigates the Minister's ties, not only to Richard Desmond and his alleged run-in with the New York Mafia, but to a law firm that worked for Vladimir Putin’s favoured oligarchs
The HSBC Loan Scandal Leaving Small Businesses On the Edge
Adrian Goldberg speaks to business owners who say their attempts to secure a Bounce Back Loan from the bank during the Coronavirus crisis has only added to their problems
Secondary Infektion: How a Russian Operation Subverted British Politics
Stephen Komarnyckyj reports on a Kremlin-friendly online operation that tried to sow division between the UK and its allies remained undetected for years
Jeux Sans Frontieres - Boris Johnson Gives Up Controlling the UK Border
Though it made much of controlling the borders, Mike Buckley reports how the Vote Leave Government is abandoning the principle at great cost to business and the NHS
Johnson & Brexit – Patronising Etonian Alienates the World
The Prime Minister's attempts to show his understanding of Aussies and New Zealanders fell flat this week – as have his attempts for post-Brexit trade
Rhetoric Versus Reality: How Britain Treats People with Disabilities
Alain Catzeflis explores the impact of Conservative ideology, austerity and the Coronavirus on people who the Government claims it wants to protect and support
The Remaking of Momentum
Sam Bright investigates what Jeremy Corbyn's departure as Labour Leader spells for the movement many believe revolutionised the party on his watch
Statue Battles: The Counter-Protestors at War with Themselves
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's former producer explains how the hard-right has chosen a fight it cannot win and why Boris Johnson cannot cut it completely loose
'Track and Trace' Will Leave Behind those Most Susceptible to COVID-19
Tasnim Nazeer reports on how the Government's troubled smartphone app will only exacerbate the health inequalities exposed by the Coronavirus pandemic
Chris Grayling's Probation Reforms Have Cost People Their Lives
As the Government announces plans to renationalise probation, reversing the catastrophic privatisation of the service, former MP Ian Lucas explains how the murder of a constituent obliterated his faith in the criminal justice system.
