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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 29/09/2026

At “panicking” you already know they don’t get this country

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 29/09/2026

This is the perfect opportunity to tell you I got an 18. My pedantry was perfectly sufferable.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 28/09/2026

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social won’t use insta but Democracy for Sale does now! Follow for interviews and explainers of our investigations when I can corner Peter and @lucasamin.bsky.social with my phone. www.instagram.com/reel/Dd1VqrG...

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 26/09/2026

The BI reg wall doesn’t even let you see the headline…

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 26/09/2026

Judging by the Halloween decor reels I keep getting served on Insta, Americans have way too much disposable income

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 25/09/2026

Tony Blair’s think tank has been accused of running a scheme that “looks and smells like cash for access” after our investigation found that his institute is offering companies “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences for an annual fee starting at $25,000.

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 25/09/2026

We have lost a great leader and friend. I can’t say we were close, but Julius’s passing has made me immeasurably sad. That’s how good he was and it’s still hard to believe I’m using the past tense. www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/blog/in-memo...

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In Memory of Julius Weinberg

We are deeply saddened to share that Julius Weinberg, who served as Chair of the Public Interest News Foundation from February 2023, died unexpectedly on Wednesday 16 September. He was 72 years old. ...

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The world's most adorable traffic signs are on the campus of Lahore University of Management Sciences. 🐈️

A road warning sign that reads "Drive Slowly - Watch for Cats"

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 21/09/2026

Discovered a new torture technique. Destroyed my phone screen, cannot control a thing but the alarm still goes off. All I can do is snooze it every 9 minutes...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...

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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool

Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 18/09/2026

Who do I talk to about telling the internet that I am not, in fact, a US citizen abroad? The midterm ads are following me everywhere

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 17/09/2026

The waiting room is starting to fill up, you can still join us...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You've got just over two hours still to sign up for our first ever Democracy for Sale masterclass. The master herself, @jennacorderoy.bsky.social , will share all her secrets to making effective and successful FOI requests. Join us! (1pm UK time Thursday 17 Sept) luma.com/ndqisdyu

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Learn FOI with Democracy for Sale · Zoom · Luma

NEW! Learn FOI from the experts at Democracy for Sale Craft an effective Freedom of Information request and demand action from your council, public school, NHS…

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 17/09/2026

A 22 year old just told me he “loves older women”. Pardon me while i go dig my own grave 💀

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 16/09/2026

This is a despicable tech timeline from a user experience POV. It's all built engineering first, use case later – and shoved down your throat. Every single piece of software makes me angry. I cannot wait for this era to end.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 16/09/2026

Every app suddenly flings a chatbot popup at me that insists I do in 3 prompts what I've always done in one click, like a Clippy from hell that will not be ignored.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 16/09/2026

Gmail suddenly decides to mark *all* of my conversations as important. Claude builds insane token-hungry artefacts when I just asked a basic question. Social algorithms show me everything *except* the people I showed an explicit interest in.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 16/09/2026

remember that scene in far from the madding crowd where the new shepherd dog wants to help and ends up driving the entire flock off a cliff and ruining the hero? that's what all my tech feels like now – an overeager puppy that takes initiatives I never asked for and makes everything worse

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 16/09/2026

Quite a few couldn't be printed in a family newspaper...

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 16/09/2026

Just hit 1,000! My favourite question is "In one word, how would you describe British politics right now?" The answers are... edifying.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 15/09/2026

I’ll include you in my next newsletter!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey

We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 14/09/2026

Next up: The House unAmerican Activities Committee whispers blue to your red heart ASMR

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 14/09/2026

I tried to set it up as my alarm and it was so monotone it did not wake me. And that’s before we even address the content…

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 14/09/2026

I listen to news on French public radio every morning but they’re on strike today so I have to listen to the Today programme and why are they trying to put me back to sleep? This is terrible

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 12/09/2026

This is beyond not reading the room. This is living on another planet.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 11/09/2026

This is what you get when you don’t cap political donations. Crypto billionaires thinking they can buy themselves the next government.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 11/09/2026

There's an obvious reason the English care more about the Bayeux tapestry than the French do: It's national myth-making to you, it's regional history to us. (And I say this as a French Norman who's also a Brit now). No great mystery.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We only went and won it (again) Democracy for Sale specialist newsletter of the year at the Future of the Media awards @lucasamin.bsky.social @jennacorderoy.bsky.social @isabelleroughol.com Thanks so much to all our supporters. If you don’t subscribe, do! 😊 democracyforsale.substack.com

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 10/09/2026

For the billionaire who has everything…

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 09/09/2026

You don’t deserve a prime number is what

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 09/09/2026

Also you both have nerdy books out

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 09/09/2026

@srotzschthomas.bsky.social i have a feeling you and jonn would get on. In fact i will absolutely take credit for it if you take him out for a pint in nottingham

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 08/09/2026

I just let my supporting members in on the secret of my next Broad History series for the autumn, so it's time for a final lookback on this summer's rollercoaster ride. (And yes, this all gets made solo in my bedroom.)

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 08/09/2026

The laundering of white supremacy in that piece by @thetimes.com is rancid and despicable. Somehow they call this journalism but we’re really not practicing the same profession. And white women as handmaidens of respectable fascism is just the playbook. The Times knows this.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 07/09/2026

Terrifying yet can’t look away

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 04/09/2026

Correx: May 2016. My friend found a photo.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 04/09/2026

I wonder if Bardella still thinks it’s a good idea to address the Reform conference today… might remind people back home the National Rally was definitely and definitively found guilty of illegal campaign funding

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 03/09/2026

The rats at Senate House are particularly loud today

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 03/09/2026

I saw Gloria Steinem speak in Sydney in 2015. It was the peak of a dumb social media trend of young women filming themselves saying “l’m not a feminist”. “What do we tell them?” someone in the audience asked. “Life will take care of it,” Gloria responded. I think about this probably once a week.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 03/09/2026

First Dolly, now Gloria. We are losing too many mothers.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 03/09/2026

I have fantasized about restoring the house to its original layout so much, trust me if I had half a million quid…

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 02/09/2026

Yeah. We also have to agree on all building works so a similar outlook is really important.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 02/09/2026

I didn't expect Reform to be fans of us, but to dismiss the reporter who just won the Paul Foot award as "a blogger" is kinda hilarious for people who pretend to be anti-establishment. #indiemedia I guess @petergeoghegan.bsky.social got his weekend back 😂 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK bans three journalists who have investigated party from its conference

Guardian City editor Anna Isaac, investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and broadcaster Michael Crick refused entry

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 02/09/2026

My exceptional upstairs neighbours / co-freeholders and my fantastic next-door neighbours have both told me in the past week they will be selling. I am crushed and dreading what comes next. Crazy how much of your quality of life depends on other people's real estate decisions.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 02/09/2026

Pundits in June: Keir can’t communicate. Pundits in September: All Andy does is communicate. You do feel for them sometimes…

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 01/09/2026

Started using a popular child-friendly messaging app to talk to my niece and kinda shocked that even in that "safe" space there are gamification features to keep up streaks and encourage usage. leave the kids be!

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