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About Peter Geoghegan

Peter Geoghegan is an Irish writer and journalist based in Glasgow. His books include ‘A Difficult Difference: Race, Religion and the ‘new’ Northern Ireland’.

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Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares
Why BigData is running roughshod over the NHS - and what to do about it
Phil Booth
Shielding data from the "five eyes": we need to stand up for encryption
Rebecca Vincent
Child safeguarding cloaks state surveillance and data exploitation
Jen Persson
Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Key poll which boosted Leadsom’s leadership bid funded by DUP’s dark-money donors

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 22 July 2017

An important poll which added momentum to Andrea Leadsom’s campaign to become prime minister was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.

Release details of DUP Brexit ‘dark money’, MPs tells Northern Ireland Secretary

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 11 July 2017

Why is James Brokenshire colluding with the DUP to cover up Northern Irish donations between 2014 and 2017?

The new Brexit minister, the arms industry, the American hard right… and Equatorial Guinea

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 1 July 2017

Steve Baker, the new Brexit minister, has taken cash from the shady Constitutional Research Council… and a whole lot of other people too.

Meet the Soopa Doopa branding agency that delivered Brexit

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 26 June 2017

How did all of the different Leave campaigns stumble upon the same obscure branding agency in Ely, if they weren't working as a coordinated campaign?

The dark money driving the Scottish Tory surge

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 5 June 2017

Electoral Commission 'looking into' Scottish Tory £100,000 donation after openDemocracy exposes potential rule breach.

How dark money is drowning British democracy

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 5 June 2017

Organisations which fund political parties are meant to declare all major donations they receive. Yet only one ever has.

Meet the Scottish Tory behind the £425,000 DUP Brexit donation

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 19 May 2017

Senior Scottish Conservative Richard Cook is at the centre of a major Brexit funding scandal.

DUP Donaldson can’t remember why his Brexit campaign spent more than £32,000 on controversial data analytics company linked to Trump

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 16 May 2017

Was it a coincidence that different Leave campaign groups used the same obscure Canadian firm? Or was there potentially illegal co-ordination between campaigns?