A newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
By Lucas Amin and Sam Gelder
Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement, after the regional unit running the pilot decided not to take it forward, De...
How to stop billionaires buying our politics
£36m man: crypto billionaire Ben Delo
It shouldn’t have taken two £36m donations to Reform to get there, but finally it seems that Westminster – and Labour – is waking up to the corrupting power of big money in British politics.
Angela Ra...
BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals.
Over the weekend, Ben Delo and then Christopher Harborne announced t...
Power, corruption & lies with Patrick Radden Keefe
Today is a special day at Democracy for Sale. No, not because a crypto billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump has just made the biggest donation in British political history, to Reform - although more on that later.
Today’s a big day for two...
Reform’s undercover donations pave road to state capture
“It worked, boom!” Nigel Farage talking to fake American donor in Clacton (Source: Verbatim.)
By Liz David-Barrett
I’ve become increasingly nauseous this summer as the series of Reform political finance scandals have unfolded, and was par...
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Editor of award-winning investigative newsletter Democracy for Sale. Author of best-selling book of same name. Winner of 2026 Paul Foot Award.
Investigative reporter based in London covering dark money and hidden influence with a special focus on the environment.
I am Professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter and a research associate of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. I was an aid worker in West Africa and Central Asia and an academic in the Kyrgyz Republic and the US.
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