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Our highlights for 2021

Tough year.
Covid has exacerbated the cracks in the system.
The Uk gov has increasingly shown its authoritarian tendencies while trying to avoid scrutiny
So, 🙏 for being there: with your growing support, we have kept holding power to account.
1. JANUARY
We discovered Cronysm at the highest level and how the Covid pandemic has been a bonanza for some, while the country was on its knees.

2. FEBRUARY
We found a new government Covid19 contract linked to a friend of #MattHancock, whose husband donated £5,000 to the Health Secretary.

The first of a long series of investigations exposing a Covid Vip lane of lucrative contracts to Tory donors.
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#DAZN #Matchroom
#disruption #sport
#Legacy v's #PurePlay specialists

This week #EddieHearn announced the worst kept secret in sports broadcasting - He's taking his show, Lock Stock, to Mr #Blavatnik first-mover streaming service.

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This is exciting for #Sports fans - Especially #boxing

Lower cost access
More shows
Bigger production

Interesting, it's announced a week after #SundayTimes named the owner of #DAZN as the richest man in the UK (again)!

That rich list is an good starting point to explore Image
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We're living through changing times;

Technology
Business
Societal
Cultural
Political
GeoPolitical

What's that got to do with #DAZN & #Sport 🤔

Well, Sport & #Entertainment is big business 💰

It's also used by powerful people to influence Hearts & Minds...
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Congrats to @MarcusRashford who leads @thesundaytimes #GivingList 🔥

But it's time for the Crony Times #GivingList. Companies who GAVE to the Tory party, and RECEIVED a Covid contract!

We and @BylineTimes found 57 people who donated £1BN. Full story 👇

bylinetimes.com/2021/03/29/map…
1. Computacentre:
💸Won £200,000,000 in Covid contracts
💸Donated £110,000
Sir Philip Hulme co-founded the company, and he and his wife are Tory party donors. Hulme has featured on the Sunday Times #RichList in past years.
2. Meller Designs:
💸Won £163,000,000 in Covid contracts
💸Donated £60,000
Owner David Meller was previously the finance chair for Michael Gove’s leadership campaign in 2016.
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PRIZE TIME: This year's @thesundaytimes #RichList is here. They missed some stuff. Can you guess what?

Time for a quiz!

A winner will receive a print of our #CronyVulture ... like and share to enter!

📸 from the amazing @jealous_gallery
Who gave a £14.4m PPE contract to a “horse-racing friend” whose company had never made PPE before? (Clue: they had to give the money back)🐴
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/fri…
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Despite a laughable conclusion that insists we need the "ambition and optimism" of the filthy rich for "our" economy "to take flight again", the preamble to @thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 understands that the greed of the super-rich is indefensible:
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 writes: "Once a poster boy for entrepreneurs, Sir @richardbranson attracted considerable scorn for seeking a £500m government loan to save @VirginAtlantic.
Commentators soon highlighted that @richardbranson had paid no personal tax in the UK for 14 years. But the largely unnoticed point is that over the past seven months he had enjoyed a windfall of well over £500m from the stock market float & soaring share price of @virgingalactic
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It's that time of year when Scotland's #richlist comes out revealing how inequality is rooted in power, not any nonsense about hard word, innovation, etc.

The one at the top of the pile, the Gordon-Grant family, is the perfect example of this.

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commonspace.scot/articles/14225…
The Gordon-Grant family have been doing very, very well. No family’s wealth in the whole of the UK had grown faster since the #richlist began, a whopping 5,000% increase in 29 years.
This year the rich list informs us that the family’s wealth has more than doubled in just the past six years, up from £1.4 billion in 2013 to £2.9 billion today. The increase from 2018 to 2019 is an enormous £310 million.
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