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In Brexit negotiations the transparency of the EU is in stark contrast to Britain, dominated by the hidden hand of think tanks and dark money
Alex Varley-Winter announces her new Investigation into Executive Overreach in the Tumult of Brexit, and Calls out for Inside Information
Maltese Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was subject to a staggering number of legal challenges before she was assassinated in 2017
True kleptocracy is a creation of globalisation; its hybrid vigour born of the intermarriage between autocracy and a globalised financial system.
How the Narnia-like countries created by Russia manipulated western coverage of the occupied Donbas
Football and tennis topped the list of European sports most vulnerable to suspicious gambling activity during 2018 – accounting for 86% of all cases referred by the continent’s betting integrity body.
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox claimed he showed MPs a list of Brexit trade deals. He never has. The Sun got it first.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s final report on disinformation and fake news reveals new evidence and calls for new investigations into dark data, dark money and Russian influence in British elections.
The Kick Back team will look into corruption inside the sport, money laundering, match-fixing and illegal betting – bringing football’s huge global audience up to speed with the latest attempts to tackle activities which act as a scar on the face of the Beautiful Game.
Criminal investigations into Leave campaigns still stalled amid allegations up to a dozen MPs in the frame.
As Washington State declares a state of emergency over measles, populist misinformation over vaccination is putting children’s lives at risk
MPs today pressuring Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox to explain hundreds of trade agreements had to ‘play detective’ on the web to discover the facts.
The former UKIP leader has promised to wipe out the Conservatives if they don’t deliver Brexit, but what else do we know about his new political venture?
The revelation that the special counsel’s office is still unraveling mysteries at “the heart” of the Russia investigation seems to contradict the recent suggestion by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker that the inquiry is “close to being completed.”
Londoners united on a chilly Sunday night to attend the inaugural meeting of the London Anti-Fascist Assembly.
Gagging order granted by High Court relates to alleged incidents involving women at the company in London, Munich and New York. The ‘magic circle’ law firm Linklaters has been granted a temporary injunction preventing a former executive from revealing details of alleged ‘struggles’ facing women at the company. The UK injunction, granted by a High…
Turning Point USA is funded by a number of wealthy right-wing businessmen. This week Turning Point UK tried to launch a similar pseudo-grassroots young conservative movement in Britain.
Social Media research shows British MP Jacob Ree-Mogg’s #Moggmentum campaign is being pushed by accounts linked to a powerful Kremlin disinformation operation.
With Brexit weeks away, serious questions need to be asked about both the Metropolitan Police and Government’s approach towards increasingly violent ‘Yellow Vest’ protests.
Hardeep Matharu meets the charity helping inmates to think about their lives and how to transform them and explores why we can’t wait for the Government to make prisons places of change.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that victims of miscarriages of justice can only claim compensation if they can prove their innocence ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is a blow to the idea of justice, according to campaigners.
Faisal Khan examines the rise of hate crimes against British Muslims and what is causing it.
As Steve Bannon is identified of the ‘High-Ranking’ Trump Campaign official in the Roger Stone indictment, the question of Russian collusion not only moves upwards to the President, but across the Atlantic
The arrest of Trump’s long time political advisor for his contact with Wikileaks and Russian hacking of the Democratic Party has two key leads to the UK and Brexit
There’s little doubt Boris Johnson was inspired in his deep state rhetoric by Steve Bannon…. The problem for Boris Johnson is that Steve Bannon is a key subject of the FBI investigation into Russian interference.
In the past decade, 71% of the 387 murders committed by extremists in the US had been perpetrated by the far right, while Muslims were responsible for 26%
The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service – the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.
THE MAIL on Sunday is today embroiled in a growing phone hacking crisis after explosive emails obtained by Byline Investigates show one of the paper’s top editors receiving transcripts of actor Sadie Frost’s voicemails.
Unearthed reveal Treasury minister Liz Truss met with representatives of five US libertarian groups at the UK taxpayers cost. But her political remarks have been censored
Britain’s £70 billion nuclear programme is in serious trouble with contractors threatening to pull out of four planned nuclear power stations and a huge recruitment crisis to get enough trained staff.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve discovered commodities traders using questionable middlemen to broker shady deals, and unless they start changing their approach to corruption, it won’t be the last.”
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office report (2014) found a 30 per cent rise in the number of Britons arrested in the UAE since 2012
Faisal Khan examines the crisis in Venezuela, what has caused it and what might be done to help resolve it. Venezuela is currently facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. From being Latin America’s richest country, it is now one of South America’s most impoverished. As Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro, writing in Foreign Affairs put it: ‘Its…
Who are the ‘Gilets Jaunes’? What are their aims? And is anyone sponsoring or organising them?
Criminal justice charities, parliamentarians and bereaved families have united to launch a campaign to ‘End Child Imprisonment’.
The first in an occasional series to accompany the UNTOLD: Dial M for Mueller podcast with Carole Cadwalldr on why Britain needs an FBI-style investigation into Brexit.
Prisoners, who are particularly vulnerable to neglect and abuse, still have rights, says Nick Hardwick
Funding cuts to women’s refuges mean 95% are turning women and children away. Thousands of abused women are being turned away from domestic violence shelters because of funding cuts, according to new statistics. Figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism show that women’s refuges have seen their budgets slashed by a whopping 24% since 2010.…
UN Special Rapporteur Professor Philip Alston believes the perception that human rights are only for criminals or the most vulnerable is damaging
If you are asked to get off a stranded train by the driver you would think it was safe. But not according to the latest rail accident report… 450 passengers were asked to leave a broken down train on the London Overground at Peckham Rye in South London almost a year ago. But a recent…
Making Spice a Class A drug is likely to make its already devastating effects on vulnerable communities worse not better, politicians have been warned.
Billions are being easily laundered through unregulated international tax free zones
The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has proved himself to be “unprincipled and unfit to hold one of the great offices of state” after turning the UK’s back on opposing the death penalty, according to an eminent human rights lawyer.