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The MAGA World Cup: how Fifa sold football to the highest bidder
When I was nine years old something magical happened. Ireland qualified for the World Cup. For the first time in our history, the boys in green were playing on football’s biggest stage.
I still think back to Italia ‘90. The sticker album....
"Wrong in numerous important respects": What PR firm privately told Josh Simons
By Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife
Josh Simons has had a good couple of weeks. The former Cabinet Office minister - forced to resign over his role in hiring a PR firm to investigate journalists critical of Labour Together - is now bein...
Billionaires are buying our democracy. Here's how to stop them.
Nigel Farage’s Reform received £7m from crypto billionaires in first three months of this year
By Sue Hawley and Tim Picton
British politics has a big problem. A big money problem.
This week’s Electoral Commission data revealed over £20m...
We won. But the story isn't finished.
It’s been a whirlwind week at Democracy for Sale. On Monday, we won Private Eye’s prestigious Paul Foot Award for our investigation into Labour Together hiring a PR firm to discredit journalists who were reporting on its undeclared politica...
The war on drugs isn't over. It's being privatised.
America’s attitude to drugs seems to be undergoing something of a revolution. Last month, Donald Trump signed an order to speed up a review of psychedelic drugs to treat mental health.
More than two dozen states have now legalised recreati...
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Journalist. Writer. Muck raker. OCCRP. Author of best-selling Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics. Founder: the Ferret. Former editor-in-chief: openDemocracy. Irish.
Investigative reporter based in London covering dark money and hidden influence with a special focus on the environment.
Jenna is a reporter for Democracy for Sale
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