The Shadow State: When Surveillance Becomes a Threat to Democracy The revelation that Arron Banks, a key figure in Reform UK and former mayoral candidate, hired private investigators to spy on journalists is a stark reminder of the creeping threat to press freedom in Britain.
This kind of aggressive surveillance not only attacks individual journalists but also undermines democracy itself.
Banks' admission that he instructed Precision Risk and Intelligence to examine Gabriel Pogrund, the editor of the Sunday Times' Insight investigations team, raises more questions than answers.