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Did dark money and dirty tactics swing Scottish election?So I looked at tactical voting ads in #SP21 and found some pretty worrying thingsTens of thousands spent by anonymous campaigns. Turning

I *really* shouldn't spend my Sunday mornings doing this but as a journalist whose job is to dig into things decided to take a look at these numbers... (v short

Remember Lubov Chernukhin, top Tory donor whose husband was secretly given $8m by a Kremlin-friendly oligarch before Brexit ref in 2016? Well, turns out Electoral Commission has had concerns about

Not surprising at all but interesting to read Russia Report so baldly state that nobody in government is actually in charge of protecting British democracy. If anything the next paragraph

Massive story that begs a massive question: if political advisors - Dominic Cummings - are sitting in on 'the science' just how non-political is what the government says 'the science'

So that's the UK government knifing its own health minister on its favourite media cheerleader?People want reassurance, a sense that someone is in control, and this is what they get.

This morning: Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, says UK could end up with worst coronavirus death rate in Europe.Also this morning: Coronavirus as culture wars artefact.Sections of British