Category: corporate power

Sold Out

The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections.

The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming.

The government refuses to act on toxic flame retardants in our bedding and furnishings.

Why are so many nations now led by extravagant buffoons? Because the nature of capitalism has changed.

Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no deal Brexit.

The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.

Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks

Make bosses pay for the disasters they cause

How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms

How dark money is subverting democracy in the UK.

Freedom is used as the excuse for ripping down public protections on behalf of the very rich.

How a dark money network is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic.

Celebrity is not harmless fun – it’s the lieutenant of exploitation.

Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice.

Donald Trump’s staff are drawn from an opaque network of corporate-funded thinktanks and fake grassroots campaigns

Corporate lobbyists and their captive governments try to wear down our resistance with one fake trade treaty after another.

To this government, “taking back control” means handing Britain to a different set of foreign powers

Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart.

Britain is not corrupt? Only through a ridiculously narrow framing of what corruption is.

The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.