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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Ben Delo has given £44m to Reform this year
By Daniel Bates and Peter Geoghegan
A crypto exchange co-founded by Ben Delo, the billionaire behind a record £36 million donation to Reform UK, is accused in a recently filed US lawsuit of syst...
Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy
Skyline of Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s largest Emirate and owner of Manchester City.
By Daniel Tester and Peter Geoghegan
The head of a lobbying firm paid by the United Arab Emirates to promote its interests in Westminster is also advising t...
Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"
Manchester City’s long road to a guilty verdict began in an unlikely place. In 2018, Der Spiegel published leaked internal emails and documents alleging that English football’s dominant team had inflated sponsorship income and concealed pay...
Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
“You are clearly driven by a partisan anti-TBI agenda, using TBI as clickbait to support your own business model. We will not be engaging with you any further on this.”
Above is how the Tony Blair Institute responded when we put new questi...
BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Tony Blair at his Institute’s Future of Britain conference, 2024
By Lucas Amin, Peter Geoghegan, May Bulman and Riccardo Coluccini
Tony Blair’s think tank has been accused of running a scheme that “looks and smells like cash for access” a...
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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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