Democracy for Sale is a diligent, brilliant guide through a shadowy world of dark money and digital disinformation stretching from Westminster to Washington, and far beyond. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Antiquated electoral laws are broken with impunity, secretive lobbying is bending our politics out of shape and Silicon Valley tech giants collude in selling out democracy. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

Instead, the referendum and its aftermath have revealed something far more fundamental and systemic. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. If you're concerned about the health of British democracy, read this book - it is thorough, gripping and vitally important' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland.Photograph: Frank Augstein/Pool/Reuters View image in fullscreen ‘These threats to democracy have, for decades, been visible to anyone disposed to look for them’: Boris Johnson in 2019. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Praise for Democracy for Sale: ‘Thorough, gripping and vitally important’ Oliver Bullough‘A brilliant description of the dark underbelly of modern democracy.

That’s why those who see in the current difficulties of liberal democracies the stirrings of past monsters – Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, to name just three – are always looking in the wrong place. It’s a great case study in how ruling elites can be infected with policy ideas and programmes via those “second-hand traders in ideas” of whom Hayek spoke so eloquently: academics, thinktanks and media commentators.Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). The integrity and trustworthiness of elections is a fundamental requirement for a functioning democracy.

This is a story of ideology and finance – of how the long-term Hayekian, neoliberal project has played out on these shores. Peter Geoghegan is a diligent, brilliant guide through a shadowy world of dark money and digital disinformation stretching from Westminster to Washington, and far beyond. This is the story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The combination of unaccountable, unreported dark money and its use to create targeted (and contradictory) political messages for individuals and groups means that we have no way of knowing how free and fair our elections have become.

He investigates politicians, fabulously well-funded partisan think tanks, propagandists who know how to game a rigged system, and the campaigners and regulators valiantly trying to stop them. One of the most depressing parts of this narrative is the bland indifference of most mainstream UK media to these scandalous events. And if that’s true, the key question for us at this moment in history is: how might our current system fail? The existential threat to liberal democracy comes from the fact that those who have successfully exploited some inadequacies of the current regulatory system – who include Boris Johnson and his current wingman, Cummings – have absolutely no incentive to fix the system from which they have benefited. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.

Remainers will probably read Geoghegan’s account of this manoeuvring by Brexiters as further evidence that the Brexit vote was invalid.