“Christopher Harborne” — 30 distilled results

Reform UK receives record £72 million from crypto billionaires

Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage, received £72 million in donations from cryptocurrency billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne by 12 September 2026, marking a record single contribution to a British political party. Delo was previously convicted in the US for inadequate anti-money laundering controls but was later pardoned.

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UK ministers seek law change to block Reform's £72m donations

Reform UK received unprecedented £72 million in donations from crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo in September 2026. The UK government, led by Andy Burnham, is amending electoral legislation to impose retrospective restrictions and stricter residency requirements for political donors, potentially invalidating the donations; Reform UK and leader Nigel Farage argue the funding is legal and threaten to retaliate against union funding of Labour if elected.

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Reform UK defends £72m crypto donations as legal, resists donor-cap pressure

Between 2026-09-11 and 2026-09-14, Reform UK received record £72 million in combined donations from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne. Deputy leader Richard Tice asserted the donations were legally compliant and defended against Labour pressure for stricter donation caps, while refusing to confirm whether donors met overseas residency requirements under proposed regulations.

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SkillBloat: Token Amplification Attacks via Skill Injection in LLM Coding Agents

21929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can be abused beyond conventional security attacks. This paper studies token amplification through skill injection: an economic resource-abuse threat in which a malicious skill causes an agent to consume substantially more tokens than needed for normal task execution.

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Two billionaires donate record £36M each to Farage's Reform UK

BitMEX founder Ben Delo and cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne each donated £36 million ($48.7–49 million) to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party within 48 hours of September 11–12, 2026. Delo stated he front-loaded the donations to bypass potential changes to political funding rules by the Labour government.

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Crypto billionaires donate $97 million to Farage's Reform UK

On September 12, 2026, two cryptocurrency billionaires donated $97 million (£72 million) to Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, in less than 24 hours. Christopher Harborne matched a £36 million donation by BitMEX founder Ben Delo, setting a record for political donations and fueling debate over money's influence in British politics.

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