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Britain’s Spies-For-Hire Are Running Wild

Mason Boycott-Owen | Politico | 24th July 2025

London is the global capital of the private intelligence industry "thanks to a worldwide fascination with fictional British spies in James Bond films and John le Carré novels". Law firms, City banks, global hedge funds and sometimes foreign governments use these shadowy firms staffed by former intelligence personnel, ex-police officers and erstwhile journalists. The sector is almost entirely unregulated (2,900 words)

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A.J. Daulerio | The Small Bow | 25th July 2025

Daulerio was the editor of Gawker during the Hulk Hogan sex tape litigation and the site's subsequent bankruptcy. Reacting to the news of Hogan's death, Daulerio explains what it has been like to be inextricably linked to such a figure in the popular imagination and to work through years of rage about it. "I feel comfortable admitting that he's partially responsible for so many good things in my current life" (1,700 words)