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How Airbnb and Uber use activist tactics that disguise their corporate lobbying as grassroots campaigns

  • Written by Luke Yates, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
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What David Cameron once called “the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money”, has come back to haunt him. By lobbying on behalf of Lex Greensill’s influential finance company, the former UK prime minister’s prediction that lobbying would be “the next...