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Boris Johnson Could Block Release of Security Advice on Evgeny Lebedev
The Prime Minister’s spokesman said release of security advice about Lebedev may not be ‘in the public interest’, reports Adam Bienkov

EXCLUSIVE Weak Oil: The Looming Collapse of Putin’s Petro Dictatorship
The Kremlin needs a permanent state of hybrid warfare in Europe to stop a global energy system transformation that will unravel Russia’s oligarchic fossil fuel economy

EXCLUSIVE Sanctioned Russian Firms Allowed to Flaunt Human Rights, Anti-Corruption Credentials by UN
Have Kremlin-backed companies used the international peace system to launder their reputations? Dimitris Dimitriadis explores

EXCLUSIVE Chancellor Rishi Sunak in New Financial Connection to Russia
Sam Bright explores the links between a firm owned by Sunak’s wife and a Russian billionaire

NHS Staff Face £50 a Month COVID Tests Simply to go to Work
The end of free lateral flow tests will cost NHS staff extra cash each month – while councils warn that they need more funding to manage COVID-19 outbreaks and the poorest risk not being able to test at all

OBR Forecast Reveals Pressures on NHS Waiting Lists – and Casts Doubt on Chancellor’s Cash Promises
Published in the minutes following the Chancellor's Spring Statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility's fiscal forecast raises alarm over post-pandemic health pressures

EXCLUSIVE ‘Profiting from Putin’s Russia’: Quarter of Council Pension Funds Invested in Russian Firms
Sascha Lavin reviews the extent to which UK councils have propped up the companies linked to Putin’s war effort

EXCLUSIVE Conservative MP Takes £22,000 Second Job For American Group Linked to Anti-Abortion Campaigns
The backlash over the secondary employment of MPs rolls on, as Sam Bright and Sian Norris reveal the lucrative role of one backbench Conservative
EXCLUSIVE Russian-Led Attacks More Deadly for Civilians
Although US forces have killed more civilians in conflicts over the past decade, Russian-led attacks using explosive violence are more lethal per incident to civilians, Sian Norris reports
Government Only Took Minutes in Two Out of Eight Randox Meetings, New Watchdog Report Reveals
The National Audit Office points out significant transparency holes in the Government’s approach to the healthcare giant Randox, that won COVID contracts worth hundreds of millions
A Spring Statement for White, Wealthy Drivers
Sunak's spring statement offered tax breaks to motorists – who are more likely to be white and on higher incomes, Sian Norris reports
EXCLUSIVE Who Owns the Fracking Giant Cuadrilla?
There is some mystery over the individuals behind the UK’s sole fracking company, as the Government considers a U-turn, reports John Lubbock
How Russia’s Disinformation Apparatus Ran Aground in Ukraine
Idrees Ahmad shows how the propaganda weapons the Kremlin tried out in Syria are missing their targets in the current war, but urges vigilance to new ones
EXCLUSIVE Roof Collapsed in Vaccines Manufacturing Centre
Sam Bright investigates the concerns of a whistleblower who says that the UK’s flagship vaccines manufacturing hub is shrouded in secrecy
Sunak Claims Poverty is Down Under the Tories – But Relative Poverty is Up
Though absolute poverty has decreased since 2010, relative poverty is rising just as the cost of living crisis starts to bite, reports Sian Norris