🔴 NEW: right wing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have received £28 million from charitable entities over the last two decades.
Me, for @goodlawproject.bsky.social:
https://goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause-how-charities-funnelled-28m-into-rightwing-think-tanks/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Investigation&utm_medium=Social
Me, for @goodlawproject.bsky.social:
https://goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause-how-charities-funnelled-28m-into-rightwing-think-tanks/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Investigation&utm_medium=Social
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The Charity sector desperately needs an overhaul in this country!!!
Thirty-one are linked to people who have donated a further £35m to the Conservative Party since 2001.
https://goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause-how-charities-funnelled-28m-into-rightwing-think-tanks/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Investigation&utm_medium=Social
These entities have donated 46% of the total figure.
https://goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause-how-charities-funnelled-28m-into-rightwing-think-tanks/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Investigation&utm_medium=Social
The only reason the Institute of Economic Affairs can get away with calling itself an Institute is because it was formed before the word Institute became reserved.
Is this (fake) charity endorsed by the Charity Commission even an Institute?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/12/charity-donations-funding-eu-brexit-politics-economics-research-trust