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The Conservative Covid cronyism revelations continue.

Another example of the scandal has come to light with the news that former Prime Minister David Cameron helped an old Etonian school friend obtain fast-track access to Department of Health officials at the start of the crisis, Russell Scott reports.

According to newly released correspondence, Hugh Warrender’s firm – Fin De Guerre Strategies – made representations to the UK Government on behalf of its client, a South Korean Covid testing firm, to supply testing kits during the early days of the pandemic. But there was a problem.

Donald Trump on the cover of Byline Times edition 72

The Tribunal of Truth: Byline Times Joins Press Regulator

Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, explains why joining Impress – the independent press regulator – is the best way to uphold accuracy and trust as investigative journalism enters a difficult new era of change
Peter Jukes
Peter Oborne portrait, by Alex Chamberlain

Peter Oborne’s Diary – Return of the Oligarchs

Twenty years ago, the political philosopher David Marquand wrote his far-sighted tract Decline of the Public. Reading it today is uncanny because it predicted with such clarity and understated intellectual power the course of British politics over the last two decades.
Peter Oborne