It Could Happen There: Dekleptocracy Report #39 / Announcement: DKP publications are moving to Substack

British Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in 2024. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Hello readers!

Starting with this week’s newsletter, all of our new output will be published via our Substack, where we will bring more exciting content online. This includes a series of interviews that will explain how gaps in our accountability and taxation system thrust corruption into your daily life. These stories will also propose simple fixes that you can take action on. We will continue to post links and announcements here.

In issue 39 of the Dekleptocracy Report, we write about how “it could happen there”. If you’re an American hoping to escape MAGA America to the UK, our newsletter brings worrying news about the rise of Nigel Farage, the Reform Party and the far right’s best chance in generations to take power in 2029. Sound like an eternity away? Well, local elections next month will be a critical bellwether. Just as it’s extraordinary that Donald Trump was able to become president again after January 6, one can say that Farage’s popularity, despite the economic catastrophe unleashed by BREXIT, which he was instrumental in bringing about, is a sign that he might just pull it off. One thing to watch is whether Elon Musk, who touchingly backs the jailed leader of the English Defence League, will come around, assuming an enterprising British prosecutor doesn’t try Musk for the role of his platform in coordinating Britain’s horrific right-wing riots last summer.