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The Tories claim they’re defending fundamental rights and freedoms, but they’re ramping up efforts to dismantle our right to protest and freedom of expression. Here’s what you need to know.

Tory Peer, Lord Marland, who claimed Frank Hester ‘is not a racist’ because he does business abroad, heads a trade organisation which lists The Phoenix Partnership as a ‘strategic partner’ and a ‘platinum’ sponsor for its summits.  

A recent Court of Appeal case considers important issues about what ‘dishonesty’ means.  by Jess O’Thomson

Medicine Box hooked up with The Plough to land a massive contract. But now the company has dissolved there’s little chance the money wasted on useless coveralls will ever be recovered. By Max Colbert

The Government claims the Legacy Act would promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. But the Belfast High Court has found ‘the evidence is to the contrary’. by Jess O’Thomson

The huge possibilities that NHS health data affords are beset by huge risks. But handing it all over to companies like Palantir isn’t the only option, says Cory Doctorow.

Wind power is one of the cheapest forms of renewable energy yet England continues to miss out. The Tories must explain why they’re putting up barriers to a sustainable future.

A company run by the Tories’ largest donor, Frank Hester, now wants to roll out AI solutions across the NHS. His ‘long conversations’ with the Prime Minister must be disclosed.

Nine companies who bagged massive contracts through the unlawful VIP lane have gone on to build empires on mountains of equipment deemed unfit for use in the NHS.

The Government’s own assessments of its net zero strategy show an administration that is already failing in the fight against the climate crisis, says Caroline Lucas.

The Tory VIP lane was a high road to cronyism, says Henry Marsh.

Almost three quarters of the contract between the tech giant and the NHS is completely blanked out. It’s time to see what it’s hiding.

We exposed how the Government was selling off £135m of unused ventilators at a knock-down price.  Now a charity is buying them up to put them to good use.

Fervent prayers for ‘the Conservative Party’ and a promise to ‘follow up!’ How Michael Gove’s emails greased the wheels of Unispace’s £679m PPE deals. with Russell Scott

The latest round of North Sea oil and gas licenses is bad news for the future of our planet, but good news for the profit forecasts of a Tory donor’s company.

Excalibur Healthcare bagged a contract for ventilators at £50,000 each. Now the Tories are flogging thousands of the same model – never used – for a starting price of as little as £100 each. By Russell Scott