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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nigel Farage’s “intensely private” billionaire megadonor Christopher Harborne is known as a crypto baron. But he has another empire too. A military one. It extends from Thailand to Washington. What would that mean for a UK under Reform? @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire

Reform UK denies donor and crypto-billionaire’s global interests in arms and military could present a conflict of interest over its defence spending policy

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

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How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill

Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?

A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

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BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists

Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Why does Donald Trump want Greenland? @helenpidd.bsky.social and I have some of the answers. It's to do with the billionaire heir to a makeup fortune...

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

EXCLUSIVE: In Bosnia this week there have been talks about a $200m new pipeline to cut reliance on Russian gas. An American company wants the contract. Its representatives were part of Donald Trump's campaign to overturn the 2020 election. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com

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Trump-linked figures lead talks on $200m European pipeline contract

Exclusive: Jesse Binnall and Joe Flynn, who campaigned to overturn 2020 election, seek to win Bosnia deal for little-known US firm

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Trump trail has taken me to Gibraltar. To answer a question: Why did the son of the most powerful man on the planet show up at a law firm in a tiny British outpost one Friday this November looking for money? @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money?

Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 04/12/2025

Worth reading this story from @tomburgis.bsky.social about the questions surrounding Christopher Harborne’s £1m donation to Boris Johnson: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine?

Exclusive: Leaked files offer a glimpse of the ex-prime minister’s relationship with Christopher Harborne

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches

From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Heard of Tether? It's based in El Salvador and makes cryptocurrency. One use of that crypto is to help Russia's war machine, I'm told. Tether is massively profitable. And among its biggest shareholders is a donor to Nigel Farage... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say

Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

*EXCLUSIVE* The Guardian investigations team's Boris Files have revealed the former prime minister’s money-making ventures from Caracas to Saudi Arabia. Today we ask a new question: Why did Boris Johnson take the man who gave him £1m to Ukraine? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The £1m man: Why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine?

Exclusive: Leaked files offer a glimpse of the ex-prime minister’s relationship with Christopher Harborne

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This is a story about spies. Though they are highly trained, they don’t work for an intelligence agency. They work for paying clients. One target was James Coussey. He'd been a criminal prosecutor. Why were they after him? My new @theguardian.com investigation (1/8)

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Just announced: the UK's most famous libel firm, Carter-Ruck, is being prosecuted before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for recklessly enabling a $4bn fraud It's astonishing how reckless Carter-Ruck was - likely causing $$$ more to be lost to fraudsters The full story:

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Two activists started exposing what was going on inside Scottish salmon farms. Soon they were being followed by spies for hire. My new investigation into the surveillance industry. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Revealed: spies for hire used ‘Big Brother’ tactics on salmon farm activists

Guardian investigation sheds light on private intelligence industry that runs covert surveillance operations

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Basil inGress @basil-ingress.eurosky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump’s a kleptocrat: How power became corruption - lessons on state capturing, when "institutions serve the few instead of shielding the many". Interview of @tomburgis.bsky.social on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social

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'Trump’s a kleptocrat’: How power became corruption | Tom Burgis

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Greg Miller @gregpmiller.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Trump's ambassador to Israel seems to be making Hiroshima (and Saigon?) references in private texts to the president.

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Exposing wrongdoing has always taken bravery. As threats to journalism increase, so does the need to protect sources. Secure Messaging is an important new tool that makes it easier to share confidential information with journalists at the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

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In a dangerous era for journalism – a powerful new tool to help protect sources

Today, the Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

There’s a huge risk here that’s been ignored. It’s the resource curse. Economies dominated by oil and mining tend to be massively corrupt - because those industries concentrate power in the hands of those who control access to the resources. The fate Ukraine has been fighting to escape.

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Graphika @graphika.com · 29/04/2025

Hong Kong exiles in the UK are being targeted online as part of a larger coordinated effort to attack China's opponents. Graphika analysts reviewed social media posts for a new investigation by @theguardian.com's @tomburgis.bsky.social and @maevemcclenaghan.bsky.social: graphika.com/posts/graphi...

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Graphika In The News: The Guardian examines Chinese targeting of Hong Kong exiles

A new report from The Guardian citing Graphika found that Hong Kong exiles in the United Kingdom are being targeted online as part of a larger coordinated effort to attack China's opponents.

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

SCOOP: Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data. My latest @theguardian.com investigation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🔴 Trump, Vance etc love to talk about free speech - but the Republicans are overseeing a massive Slapps campaign to silence their opponents I spoke to @davidenrich.bsky.social about his vital new book Murder the Truth New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/murdering-...

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Murdering the truth: Inside Trump’s war on journalism

New York Times reporter David Enrich on how American oligarchs, billionaires and MAGA politicians are using the law to silence their opponents

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