PRAISE FOR

DEMOCRACY
FOR SALE

“A brilliant description of the dark underbelly of modern democracy: dark money, influence games and the new tactics of the new far-right. Everyone should read it.”

ANNE APPLEBAUM,
historian, author of Gulag and Red Famine

‘Peter Geoghegan’s investigations have been essential reading. Now this urgent, vital book is essential reading for anyone who wants to make sense of our politics.’

CAROLE CADWALLADR,
writer and winner of the Orwell Prize and Stieg Larsson Prize, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

“There’s a reason why ‘follow the money’ is such a good rule for journalism: donations to political causes tell us what private interests are at play. Peter Geoghegan’s literally sterling work on the role of dark money in the Brexit upheaval is in the great tradition of investigative reporting. He follows the financial trails to reveal in compelling detail the nexus of international players for whom democracy is a game whose rules they could manipulate with impunity. Democracy for Sale is as urgent as it is illuminating.”

FINTAN OTOOLE,
author of Ship of Fools and Heroic Failure

“Democracy, we are told, dies in darkness. This forensic and highly readable book shows how so many of our democratic processes have moved into the murky, unregulated spaces of globalisation and digital innovation. It’s time society took a good look at them and decided whether this is the sort of democracy we want.”

PETER POMERANTSEV,
author of Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible and This is Not Propaganda

“Geoghegan pulls off the ultimate goal of investigative writing. He not only exposes scandals – he enables us to witness the system that generates the wrongdoing and permits it. He does so by linking what once seemed isolated outrages into a compelling and very readable story of the ongoing corruption of our government and therefore ourselves.”

ANTHONY BARNETT,
author of Iron Britannia and The Lure of Greatness

“Peter Geoghegan is one of our best investigative journalists; his work is careful, sober, non-sensational, and terrifying. Democracy for Sale forensically exposes the fault lines in our politics, and reveals how they have been exploited by the rich and the powerful to further their own interests. 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