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Published in: Home: NewsJust Stop Oil targets think tank over role in protest crackdown
Activists targeted Policy Exchange after openDemocracy revealed it received Big Oil funding and helped draft law
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRishi Sunak admits oil-funded think tank helped write anti-protest laws
The PM confirmed Policy Exchange helped draft laws targeting climate activists, as first revealed by openDemocracy
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Published in: Home: FeatureAssault rifles, wind farms, immigration and hormones: Inside NatCon
Despite organisers’ best efforts, openDemocracy still got a reporter into the National Conservatism conference
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Published in: Home: NewsFlagship conservative conference bars reporters from left-leaning media
openDemocracy was among at least three publications refused entry to NatCon weeks in advance
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsHow both sides of Scottish indy debate are being bankrolled by dark money
Revealed: Former PM Gordon Brown’s think tank Our Scottish Future is among those receiving the lowest transparency rating
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Published in: Home: NewsTrade secretary Kemi Badenoch dined with anti-climate lobbyists in US
Minister had secret meeting with oil-backed think tank that warned UK government not to listen to climate scientists
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Truss-allied think tank met dozens of MPs prior to leadership win
Institute of Economic Affairs boasted of access to parliamentarians in run-up to Liz Truss’s ill-fated premiership
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhat’s dangerous about the idea of ‘beauty’ in architecture?
OPINION: Right-wing think tank Policy Exchange is using design principles to push a wider traditionalist agenda
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Published in: 50.50: NewsRevealed: LGB Alliance has secret office at UK’s libertarian think tank hub
Charity Commission urged to investigate organisation over shared address with right-wing lobby groups
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: UK’s most secretive think tanks took £14.3m from mystery donors
openDemocracy has relaunched the Who Funds You? campaign into think tanks and transparency. Here’s what we found
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Published in: Home: FeatureWill think tanks be kicked out of Downing Street after the Truss disaster?
Rishi Sunak’s old allies at the Institute of Economic Affairs were behind policies that helped crash the economy
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Published in: Home: OpinionIn just 44 days, Liz Truss has made the UK immeasurably worse
OPINION: The PM’s legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession
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Published in: Home: OpinionHere’s how Liz Truss’s successor will try to win back Conservative voters
Opinion: Truss leaves behind a divided party trailing in the polls. But there’s one policy area it could seize on
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Published in: Home: News‘Fantastic’: What Truss’s allies said about budget that crashed UK economy
Think tanks celebrated Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget as ‘welcome’ and ‘a boost’ in a series of now-awkward briefings
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Published in: Home: NewsWarning over Truss’ links to US lobbyists who tanked Obama climate law
Hardline free-market groups allied with Tory leadership favourite also said NHS should compete with US corporations
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Published in: Home: NewsFears over cost of living ‘solutions’ proposed by Truss-backed think tanks
MP says Truss could be a ‘puppet’ for right-wing groups that have already generated a dozen of her policies
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: US climate deniers pump millions into Tory-linked think tanks
Our investigation reveals secretive funding sources for think tanks that boast of influencing the government
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: Policing bill was dreamed up by secretive oil-funded think tank
Controversial anti-protest law may have originated in briefing from Policy Exchange, our investigation reveals
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Published in: Live discussionsAre dark-money think tanks bad for British democracy?
Conservative think tanks have the ear of government. Their ideas often become official policy. But who funds them?...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Influential UK net-zero sceptics funded by US oil ‘dark money’
Net Zero Watch says it won’t take cash from fossil fuel investors – but we discovered a funder with millions in oil