Making sense of the nonsense

Building homes is financially unviable across 48% of the country. Planning reform won't fix that. The real barriers are costs, land, infrastructure and demand.

To launch the latest edition of Babelfish June Sarpong interviewed Dale Vince on how to clean up British politics

Jenrick's unlawful donor favour. Farage's £5m crypto gift. £1.4bn wasted on Covid VIP lane contracts. Britain's politics is for sale. The fix costs just a bag of crisps each.

Dale Vince urges Labour to ban all private political donations. New polling shows two-thirds of Britons back a cap and pressure is mounting inside parliament.

A Babelfish investigation: 80% of Reform UK's £15m in donations last year came from 18 donors linked to offshore tax havens. Follow the money, find the truth.

Exclusive Survation polling for Babelfish: 71% would back a total ban on political donations in a referendum, and just 22% think the current system is fair.

Just £50m a year in private donations controls the £3trillion UK economy. Public funding would cost the price of a packet of crisps per person. So why don't we?

Britain has over 150 billionaires, and no cap on what they can give a political party. The government's new bill is a historic chance to close the door for good.

Farage promised Dubai's elite "a Reform London will remember you" - on an undeclared trip hosted by billionaires who also entertain the Tate brothers.

A previously unpublished email shows the civil servant running the Tory VIP lane warned it was disrupting PPE supply and risking taxpayer billions. He was ignored.

Nigel Farage took a secret £5m gift from a Thai-based crypto tycoon — on top of £22m more. British democracy isn't just for sale. It's already been bought.

What if UK parties got £50 per paid-up member from the state instead of chasing mega-donors? The Autonomy Institute's plan would cost £50m a year - and clean up politics.

A modest cut to the Sovereign Grant could free £66m a year — enough to publicly fund UK political parties and break the grip of mega-donors. Here's how.

For every £1 donated to UK parties, donor firms get £1,294 back in government contracts. The Autonomy Institute's plan ends private money and rebuilds public trust.

France banned corporate donations in 1995. Canada caps individual donations at £930. Five democracies show the UK how to stop mega-donors buying influence.

A handful of billionaires have pumped £170m into Britain's populist right. Labour can't beat Reform by copying them, only by telling voters the honest truth.