So thrilled about this - such a pleasure to work with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social

🔴 KPMG being paid £8million to encourage English hospitals to adopt Palantir tech But government refusing to give us info about KPMG deal Labour MP and campaigners have decried secrecy and called on gov't to "ditch this dirty company” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

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"The fact that - on top of everything else - Palantir's NHS offer is just not very good does make one wonder about the source of Wes Streeting's enthusiasm for it. And why the hapless Keir Starmer was dragged along to endorse them by Peter Mandelson." open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

NEW Uncovering the secrets of ARIA How an ‘advanced’ scientific body was reduced to claiming environmental information was not ‘environmental information’ By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Lovely piece about how the government sought to misuse FoI law, and how the government was defeated. Enjoy the story.

Great to see Democracy For Sale validate that ARIA is covered by the environmental information regulations

Great stuff here from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social and the lengths Tory ministers went to to prevent scrutiny of Cummings's research and innovation project Aria (and how they've been found out). www.aria.org.uk substack.com/home/post/p-...

🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings? It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉 New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

Thames Water's chair was ­suspected by government officials of ­holding a potentially “conflicted ­position” when his company made an “unjustified” dividend payment of £37.5m to shareholders Cracking @lucasamin.bsky.social story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/thames-wat...

SCOOP: Starmer's AI guru was advising Hakluyt's AI investment fund while writing the govt's AI 'action plan' democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...

Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract New on Democracy for Sale by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and me democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-w...

hi @werahobhouse.bsky.social could you follow so I can dm a press query please?

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🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...

SCCOP: the Government has given £450m in subsidies to a sewage-dumping water firm that paid out billions to shareholders. New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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🚨 SCOOP: Tory foreign minister minister used official visit to Azerbaijan to promote party donor’s business Leo Docherty used trip to Baku to promote JCB, whose owners the Bamfords have given millions to the Conservatives New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tory-minis...