Sam Power

Jan 15, 2025 | theconversation.com | Sam Power

Tulip Siddiq has resigned as anti-corruption minister after getting embroiled in a corruption scandal. A number of questions had been raised about her following an investigation by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission into the country’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed last year and just happens to be Siddiq’s aunt.

Jan 15, 2025 | tolerance.ca | Sam Power

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Dec 4, 2024 | theconversation.com | Sam Power

A £78 million political donation from Elon Musk “will break our democracy”. This was the stark warning from investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan when news broke that the world’s richest man was preparing a “fuck you, Starmer payment” of US$100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform party. There is a lot that people don’t agree on when it comes to money in politics. But one thing on which politicians tend to be aligned is that foreign interference is bad.

Dec 4, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Sam Power

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Oct 1, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Sam Power

By Sam Power, Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol MP Rosie Duffield has ensured that the row over Keir Starmer accepting freebies will remain in the news by resigning from the Labour party, stating that they care “more about greed and power than making a difference”. About 18 months ago, I discussed Rishi Sunak’s ongoing complications with sleaze in the Conservatives.