In this week’s issue

• How a QAnon-believing Scientologist and ‘personal friend’ of Farage hyped an “anti-woke” cryptocurrency that investors later alleged was a scam
• UK government has ‘no record’ of discussions at AI chief’s secret briefing to elite intelligence firm’s Big Tech clients
• How global security obsession has led governments to manage threats with force and control, rather than tackling root causes
• England’s summer of record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires is pushing fragile food system to brink of collapse
• How a convicted fraudster spun a Balkan web of offshore shell companies, illicit crypto-ATMs, and financial subterfuge to bankroll Reform UK’s elite
• UK firefighters battling wildfires struggle…