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Lucas Amin

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Award-winning investigative reporter. Digging for stories @ Democracy for Sale and climbing rocks for reasons I can't entirely explain.

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I am urgently seeking to talk with Azerbaijani activists for a new story ahead of COP29. Can you please follow and DM if interested @AltayRashidoglu @EldarMamedov4 @arzugeybulla Thanks.


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An investigation by The Ferret and the Democracy for Sale newsletter (@LucasAm1n) has found Petroineos could earn around £6m from the sale of thousands of free pollution permits it will be given by the UK Government in 2025.


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UK was due to introduce a new packaging tax to tackle plastic waste. But the levy was deferred. Why? Because big food brands successfully lobbied Tory government, saving themselves £1.7billion New by @LucasAm1n on Democracy for Sale - and today's Observer democracyforsale.substack.com/p/british-food…


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British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal A new scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by the Tories after industry complaints. @LucasAm1n and @JonUngoedThomas | @guardian bit.ly/3YdLedx


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Great to see local press in Cumbria reporting on court case Democracy for Sale is taking to force government to release confidential documents about the so-called 'net zero' coal mine approved by Michael Gove Props to @RebeccaHenrys for telling the story newsandstar.co.uk/news/24484828.…


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🔴 Why the secrecy over mega-donor Frank Hester’s meetings with Tory ministers? - Hester is accused of making racist and misogynistic comments - His company Phoenix Partnership has been given £400m in public contracts - Hester met Tory ministers But health department has…


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🔴 NEW 🔴 Labour Urged to Release Cumbria Coal Mine Documents by Ex-Net Zero Tsar The gov. is being taken to court for failing to publish the evidence provided to ministers before they backed the controversial scheme. 📝 @PeterKGeoghegan & @LucasAm1n desmog.com/2024/07/24/lab…


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#DemocracyForSale has broken major stories this election exposing financial ties between Tory think tanks, climate deniers & Trump @PeterKGeoghegan & @LucasAm1n are crowdfunding to help break even more stories about dark money You can help them⏬️ gofundme.com/f/democracyfor…


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Friends! @PeterKGeoghegan & @LucasAm1n have been killing it this election! Their latest scoop: how Trump-linked donors are pouring cash into the Tories This dodgy stuff won't end on July 4. But these guys have a plan to clean the system Support them! gofundme.com/f/democracyfor…


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Quelle surprise.

🔴 SCOOP: ‘Toxic’ Trump-linked donors pouring dark money into British politics Secretive US trusts that fund ‘Trump’s think tank’, climate deniers and far right give millions to IEA and other Tory think tanks Raises “serious questions about foreign influence in UK politics” Me…



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Worried about the influence of 'toxic' foreign dark money on British politics? Support Democracy for Sale’s crowdfunding campaign so we can clean up the system gofundme.com/f/democracyfor… #GE24


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🔴 SCOOP: ‘Toxic’ Trump-linked donors pouring dark money into British politics Secretive US trusts that fund ‘Trump’s think tank’, climate deniers and far right give millions to IEA and other Tory think tanks Raises “serious questions about foreign influence in UK politics” Me…


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🔴 Labour is now Britain's big money party Labour raised *15 times* more money than Tories in last week Starmer's party took in £4million from just three super rich donors And where there's big money, there's big influence... New by me democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-is-no…

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🚨 Who funds you? Turns out it's Tory donors Britain's incredibly influential right-wing think tanks refuse to declare their donors But we've discovered that seven Conservative donors have pumped £6.85 million into Tufton Street since 2019 Labour’s @liambyrnemp said “these…

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🚨 ESSENTIAL VIEWING! Fantastic work by @ByDonkeys, @PeterKGeoghegan, @LucasAm1n & @carolvorders, revealing the individuals behind the #TuftonStreet think tanks, which, like our billionaire-owned 'news' media, exist solely to protect the interests of the grotesquely wealthy. 🇬🇧

REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m (Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)



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And if you'd like to make a donation to support our work, please do so here: opencollective.com/the-watchdog/p… We're a small operation - just two journalists - so every penny makes a difference


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REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m (Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)


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Latest dark money investigation by @LucasAm1n and me was beamed onto 55 Tufton Street last night. Amazing work from @ByDonkeys and @carolvorders xxx (PS Sign up to Democracy for Sale 😎 democracyforsale.substack.com)

REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m (Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)



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🔴 REVEALED: TORY PEERS FUNDING CLIMATE DENIAL - Global Warming Policy Foundation refuses to declare its donors but new investigation finds funders include Jon Moynihan, who Liz Truss made a Lord - Other Tory peers and donors bankrolling the GWPF - Labour's @alexsobel calls on…


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🔴Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen told an audience of Liz Truss’s Popular Conservatives earlier this week that: - civil servants “absolutely” were “working against the democratic mandate of this government” - officials in arm's length bodies were "atrocious" - Javier Milei's…

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