#124 - Peter Geoghegan On Covid Contract Corruption and Government Transparency

[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvbelink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Peter Geoghegan is back for round 2! Peter is a writer at openDemocracy and author of the book Democracy For Sale all about the corruption, dark money, and astroturfing going on in British politics. We had him on the show last year to talk about his book when it first came out and he is back to talk all about the corruption/cronyism involved in handing out the covid contracts. We talked about why there is not more outrage at the money being handed out to friends of the government in times of crisis, as well as Peter's recent struggles and revelations on FOI requests. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now available for pre-order. You’ll find the links in the description below. [**ORDER BREXIT:THE ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR HERE**]( https://amzn.to/39XXVjq) [***Get 25% off podcast hosting with Podiant***](https://pcast.link/chatter/) [***Order GameStop T-shirts Here!***](https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/to-the-moon-59) ***RESOURCES*** https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/peter-geoghegan/ https://www.petergeoghegan.com/ https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan https://www.scotsman.com/read-this/the-details-of-100-government-covid-contracts-have-still-not-been-published-3155826 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56281934 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9331015/Government-unlawfully-failed-publish-details-500-Covid-related-contracts-court-hears.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elo5NJ9Enb0 https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/boris-johnson-news-pm-e2-80-98misled-parliament-e2-80-99-over-covid-contracts-as-strike-fund-launched-over-1-25-nhs-pay-rise/ar-BB1ehqlH Follow us on [Facebook]( https://www.facebook.com/justgivemethejist/) or [Twitter]( https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist) or [sign up for our mailing list here]( http://eepurl.com/cSmT7v) to get information on my upcoming book, [Brexit: The Establishment Civil War](http://www.establishmentcivilwar.co.uk/). Music from Just Jim - [https://soundcloud.com/justjim](https://soundcloud.com/justjim)