Ethan Shone

What can we learn about the future of consumer rights from the merger between Microsoft and Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard?

The event was a messy, fractious and, at times, tense display of the kind of true democracy missing from UK politics

Star-studded think tank launches, defection rumours and ‘growing pains' – a week inside the ascendant Green Party

Having helped get the party elected, Anacta Strategies now helps its clients get what they want from Starmer's Labour government

Zack Polanski calls for investigation as we find Hakluyt’s business grew by 30% after Starmer hired Varun Chandra

Government failed to declare meeting with top Global Counsel clients, and says no notes were taken at several meetings

The government has no official records of meetings that top civil servants held with senior figures and clients from Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm last year, including an undeclared meeting with oil giants and private equity firms,

Makerfield result means we will likely have a new PM by September, and Britain will find out what Burnhamism really means

New PM’s likely chief of staff, James Purnell, runs lobbying firm whose clients include tech giants and water companies

UK’s weak lobbying laws leave public in the dark about Flint Global’s vast access to government under James Purnell