Paul Holden is a writer and journalist who investigates grand corruption and corporate malfeasance. Holden was senior researcher on the book and feature documentary Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2011). He has published six books, three of them bestsellers in his native South Africa, and has written for publications including the Guardian and the Independent. His 2025 book "The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British Democracy" traces England's Labour Party and its foment of antisemitism moral panic, and corruption via dark money.