SpaceX IPO shows Musk’s genius is in mythmaking ft.trib.al/zQuitF7
the water wars are picking up.
One to bookmark.
This case should surely add to calls for companies themselves to face some responsibility and accountability where those they employ break post-employment rules about lobbying. @ethicsandintegrity.bsky.social @appgonacrt.bsky.social @cynthiao.bsky.social @direthoughts.com
5 (!) years ago the FT cracked open funky invoices and dodgy lobbying. Today Greensill was banned from UK directorships.
But where is the Serious Fraud Office with its probe into Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG and its financing arrangements with Greensill??
@bondhack.ft.com
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The (data) plot thickens.
“NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platform.”
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🔴 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...
3. ⏰ The Greensill scandal is a reminder of what happens when political access, weak oversight and private interests become too closely intertwined. It is alarming that so few of the recommendations made after the lobbying scandal it exposed have been implemented five years on.