The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Highlights from the Bureau

Is Work Working?

Deliveroo riders can earn as little as £2 an hour during shifts, as boss stands to make £500m

An analysis of hundreds of riders’ invoices shows many riders’ earnings per session falling short of minimum wage levels

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Smoke Screen

New products, old tricks? Concerns big tobacco is targeting youngsters

The Bureau has found British American Tobacco has attracted a new generation of non-smokers to addictive tobacco and nicotine products marketed as trendy and aspirational

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Eating the Earth

British chicken driving deforestation in Brazil’s “second Amazon”

Britain’s leading supermarkets and fast food outlets are selling chicken fed on soya that has been linked to vast deforestation and thousands of fires across a vital region of tropical woodland

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Coronavirus

‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal

The Bureau has learned that the pharmaceutical giant also insists on indemnity against its own negligence in hardball negotiations with Latin American countries

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