In an extract from his book, Peter Geoghegan shows how the European Research Group became a tightly organised ‘party within a party’ that set the UK on course for a no-deal Brexit.
Safeguards on everything from procurement to notifiable diseases, health inspections to freedom of information, are being suspended at a time when accountability is more important than ever.
The pandemic has accelerated the growth of the data economy and the digital giants who dominate it. It's time to rethink how data is owned, governed and used.
Millions are unable to survive the pandemic or the rules to contain it. Their stories make a compelling case for a universal basic income grant. #HumansofCOVID19
Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British government – hoping to get out of it?
