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England rallies round the flag while putting workers in peril
A COLLEAGUE in Turin tells me that coronavirus is when Italians noticed Boris Johnson. “We expect it from America”, she said, “but Britain?”. For those of us who have been following the degeneration of the British state, though, the horror is no shock.
These are the lessons to learn from our probe into Farage and Banks’ cash
IT’S now two years since Ali and Iain first approached me with questions about Arron Banks. Alastair Sloan was an occasional contributor to openDemocracy. Iain was an accountant. In Spring 2017, they came to me with a surprising claim: they had serious doubts about whether insurance company owner Arron Banks, “the man who bought Brexit”, was really anything like as rich as people said.
On the trail of the dark money which funds Trump, Davidson and Brexit
AFTER spending the last two years wading through the fetid sewers of dark money that are drowning British politics it’s not been hard to identify the common denominator in a long list of activities ... the broken constitution of the British state.
Revealed: How dark money split the Tories’ ruling elite
A WHILE back, I was undercover at a Scotland in Union dinner and found myself sat next to the aristocratic wife of a prominent Brexiteer. I won’t name her, because that would be rude. But you’ve heard of him.
