The Pegasus Project: Secrets, lies, and mobile spies

Pegasus, the spyware product designed by the Israeli surveillance company NSO has dominated the headlines since its exposure in July 2021. This is the third ‘great leak’ of recent times, after the Paradise and Panama Papers, and comes from the collaborative work of more than eighty journalists, from seventeen media organisations, in ten different countries. […]

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On Shaky Ground: Zuma’s Defiance

Ex South African President Jacob Zuma was pressured to resign amid allegations of rampant corruption which had plunged South Africa into ‘state capture’. Zuma resigned his position with immediate effect in February of 2018. During his presidency between 2009 – 2018, corruption proliferated throughout South Africa’s political and economic institutions and infrastructures to such an

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Further Footballing Fakes

During the 2018 World Cup, we took a light-hearted look at those individuals who had parlayed their lack of skill & talent into something approaching a football career. It’s now time to look a little deeper at some footballing frauds that were a great deal more serious for the clubs and the industry as a

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The body corporate

Since antiquity, the concept of the ‘body politic’ has been well-established: the conception of a polity manifested in a human body. The king is the head, the instruments of government the senses, the citizens the limbs, and so on. What practical purpose this served, other than to provide a metaphor for a society developing at

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