Two crypto billionaires have just given Reform £36m each. Christopher Harborne says he wants nothing in return – "just a party that is ready for government." My June investigation looked at what that party's crypto policies are, and who they'd benefit… www.thenerve.news/p/reform-cry...

‘It’s like this was made up by a schoolkid’: Reform’s vanishing crypto bill

Nigel Farage launched it in Las Vegas and promised to make it law. Now, as his links to cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne are under scrutiny, Reform’s flagship policy has disappeared. When you un...

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NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/

New from me @thenerve.news Three former members of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee are worried about who gets to pick the next governor. After what Reform said at their conference this week, you might want to be too.

Next month I'm cycling from Nice to Montpellier to raise money for secondary breast cancer research at the ICR… Please support me if you can… www.justgiving.com/page/ian-tuc...

Ian's fundraiser for The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

Help Ian Tucker raise money to support The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

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My Mail debut: why our elected representatives should think twice about wearing contour-hugging sportswear in front of their constituents www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/fi...

I'm a proud MAMIL but the only safe space for Lycra is on yer bike!

There is a moment that comes to every man who takes up cycling in middle age. You catch sight of yourself in a shop window, in full skin-tight lycra, and you understand you have become a sausage man.

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Peter Thiel gets a gong from Axel Springer. Axel Springer’s Telegraph is thrilled for him. Synergy

Reform have finally explained the vanishing crypto bill: they told the BBC's Faisal Islam it's "still party policy," the website just needed tidying. It remains policy that the Bank of England should hold bitcoin, and crypto capital gains tax should be cut to 10%. www.thenerve.news/p/reform-cry...

‘It’s like this was made up by a schoolkid’: Reform’s vanishing crypto bill

Nigel Farage launched it in Las Vegas and promised to make it law. Now, as his links to cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne are under scrutiny, Reform’s flagship policy has disappeared. When you un...

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BBC's Matt Shea offers evidence of how crypto is being leveraged to support smash and grab politics. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote

They think democracy has run its course - so they're setting up their own nations instead.

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Nigel Farage launched a crypto bill in Vegas and vowed to make it law. Since then he's lobbied the Bank of England on crypto rules, put £275,650 into a bitcoin firm, and taken a controversial £5m gift. The bill? Quietly gone from Reform's site. My investigation: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-cry...

‘It’s like this was made up by a schoolkid’: Reform’s vanishing crypto bill

Nigel Farage launched it in Las Vegas and promised to make it law. Now, as his links to cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne are under scrutiny, Reform’s flagship policy has disappeared. When you un...

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2010: Blockchain is going to change the world! It will be the entirety of our economy! 2026: Blockchain’s main function is to operate gambling tokens that are used only to evade taxes and to massively bribe the president of the United States without detection

Fantastic to see @thenerve.news’s investigation trending on UK Twitter. The crypto millions fuelling Britain’s far-right turn (the exact same playbook as Trump) requires much, much more scrutiny.

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NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/

New piece for @thenerve.news £24m has been staked on whether Starmer survives the year – on a platform backed by Peter Thiel, advised by Donald Trump Jr., and 25% owned by the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. It has no UK licence. No UK regulator will touch it.

EXCLUSIVE! @thenerve.news publishes Paul Holden's first full account of what happened when Labour Together hired a corporate intelligence firm to investigate him – and then reported him to GCHQ on false grounds. It's a remarkable piece of writing.

TECHNOFASCISM! Palantir's 22-point X post has been seen by millions. But most of the reaction has been shock, not analysis. Philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh – who coined the term "technofascism" – digs into the subtext for @thenerve.news

BREAKING! We found 32 senior UK government officials who've gone through the revolving door to Palantir – Peter Thiel's surveillance firm. Ministers, peers, generals, a former MI6 chief. Our new investigation for @thenerve.news

NEW from @thenerve.news: USS the academics' pension fund backs the firm helping Trump deport migrants. It has £45m invested in Palantir despite published commitments on human rights investment. Its own members may be able to force a reckoning. THREAD 1/9

Palantir – Peter Thiel's tech firm, currently helping Trump deport people and select targets in Iran – is sitting in millions of British pension pots. New investigation by @TheNerveNews – part of a cross-European project led by @ftm_nl. Here's what we found. 🧵 www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-u...

Is Palantir in your pension? UK institutions have over £5bn invested in US tech corporation

Research shows size of investment by UK organisations – including some of Britain’s biggest retirement providers – in Silicon Valley’s most controversial technology company. Carole Cadwalladr and Ian ...

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NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

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Turns out when you fly academics around on private jets with mink throws and meals from Le Cirque, they develop some interesting theories about who deserves to rule over the rest of us www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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"Reform are now the party of the establishment" www.thenerve.news/p/reform-fun...

Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors

The majority of the money behind Nigel Farage’s movement was being supplied by Conservative interests even before the defection of so many high-profile figures from the party – to the alarm of former ...

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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

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Guardian staff letters contradict Scott Trust claims it consulted over Observer sale

The Guardian has published two letters from current and former staff attacking the chair of the Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group.

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Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer

Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer

Union says sale of Sunday paper to Tortoise would be a ‘betrayal of the Scott Trust’s commitment to the Observer’

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When you're done with politics

Jeff Jarvis: ‘Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter seemed insane, but it gave him this power’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Jeff Jarvis: ‘Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter seemed insane, but it gave him this power’

The US media pundit on the dangers of overregulation online, why he’s more frightened of the tech bros than AI itself, and how to reclaim the web by getting rid of the geeks

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Please share. You've prob heard about this already. He had a holiday fling with a British girl in Dubai. When they got back to London the girl's parents found out and for reasons I won't bother to assume, decided to report him to the police in Dubai. Madness. www.gofundme.com/f/nv5kyy-hel...

Donate to HELP BRING MARCUS HOME..., organized by T Konu

Please Help Bring Our Son Home On August 26th our son (Marcus) went to the UAE to celebrate his f… T Konu needs your support for HELP BRING MARCUS HOME...

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There’s nobody in journalism whose integrity and judgment I value more than that of Paul Webster, who retired last week as editor of the Observer. If you’ve valued Observer journalism in recent years please read his X thread about the Scott Trust’s potential sale of the Observer.