Ethan Shone - openDemocracy

Having helped get the party elected, Anacta Strategies now helps its clients get what they want from Starmer's Labour government

By Ethan Shone

/ 3 Apr 2026

Star-studded think tank launches, defection rumours and ‘growing pains’ – a week inside the ascendant Green Party

By Ethan Shone

/ 1 Apr 2026

Exclusiva: Empresas de IA británicas mandan a su personal a los organismos públicos que deben controlarlas. El gobierno no está obligado a informar

By Ethan Shone

/ 19 Mar 2026

Exclusive: Tech firms such as TBI are embedding staff in government, sparking fears AI policy is being ‘outsourced’

By Ethan Shone

/ 13 Mar 2026

After a stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection, Green activists are preparing for a major establishment backlash

By Ethan Shone

/ 27 Feb 2026

Palantir contrató a cuatro funcionarios del Ministerio de Defensa británico. Luego obtuvo el mayor contrato de su historia con esa cartera

By Ethan Shone

/ 29 Jan 2026

Firms can get direct access to tech minister and No 10 advisers in exchange for sponsoring tech event, brochure says

By Ethan Shone

/ 29 Jan 2026

From ICE to Gaza, Palantir is complicit in violent US hegemony. Why do we keep giving it contracts?

By Ethan Shone

/ 26 Jan 2026

Palantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department

By Ethan Shone

/ 24 Jan 2026

How Nigel Farage’s ‘anti-establishment’ party began a love affair with lobbyists and industry leaders

By Ethan Shone

/ 16 Jan 2026

The secondment, which comes as ministers court private finance, ended on same day we asked the government about it

By Ethan Shone

/ 13 Jan 2026

The event was a messy, fractious and, at times, tense display of the kind of true democracy missing from UK politics

By Ethan Shone

/ 5 Dec 2025