A newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy
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What has Palantir ever done for us?
A lot has been happening this week. But I want to start with some good news: Democracy for Sale has been shortlisted for specialist newsletter of the year at the Future of the Media Awards 2026. 🥳
It’s a real recognition of our work. Than...
Ditch Palantir's £330m NHS contract, MPs and campaigners tell Burnham
MPs, healthcare experts and NHS insiders are calling on Andy Burnham’s new government to end the NHS’s controversial £330m contract with Palantir, after our investigation revealed remarkably low levels of usage of the tech firm’s software i...
"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Palantir has been dubbed the world’s scariest company. Trump’s favourite tech firm provides surveillance software to ICE, the Pentagon and the Israeli ministry of defence. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp talk excitedly of AI drone-driven warfare....
How to stop Reform’s dark money
I’ve been exposing dark money in British politics for almost a decade. Often people, especially those in power, haven’t wanted to listen. The problem is overblown. It’s a borderline conspiracy.
Now, suddenly, everyone has woken up.
Nigel...
Farage has done us all a favour
Farage - desperate to escape accountability
It’s 1997. Conservative MP Neil Hamilton is running for re-election in Tatton, Cheshire. He’s sitting on a 22,000 vote majority in a rock solid Tory seat.
But Hamilton isn’t any old incumbent. H...
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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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