Hello and welcome back.
A quick housekeeping update before we dive into this week’s stories. Dark Arts has decided to split this newsletter into two – apparently, not everyone has the time or inclination to read 3,000 words on lobbying and influence in a single sitting every week, who knew?
You’ll now receive a primary Dark Arts story fairly regularly, which might be an exclusive news story or investigation like the one you received over the weekend, or perhaps a longform interview or extended piece of data analysis. Separately, you’ll also receive an email like this one, which we’re calling the Dark Arts Dispatch. This will contain a number of shorter, ‘quick hit’ stories of the kind that have generally appeared at the bottom of the newsletter.
