Stories

22.05.20

Local Power

Council borrowed £1bn from taxpayers to bet on British sunshine

Thurrock council has borrowed more than £1bn from other local authorities

22.05.20

Local Power

Rockfire Capital: a private firm with millions of pounds of public money

A business that marketed itself as an investment opportunity for local authorities has used taxpayers’ money to propel itself to the fore in the UK’s solar energy market

21.05.20

Local Power

Treasury bans billion-pound council property investments revealed by the Bureau

The Bureau has spent two years digging into council finances and found many had borrowed billions of pounds of public money to invest in commercial property

16.05.20

Local Power

Councils' bets on property market 'battered' by Covid-19 closures

The Bureau revealed in 2018 how councils had borrowed hundreds of millions to invest in commercial property, but coronavirus has put retail parks and shopping centres under extreme strain

15.05.20

The Housing Crisis

The race to house Britain's homeless

After an unprecedented effort to get ‘Everyone In’, the long-term fate of the homeless is uncertain

12.05.20

Coronavirus

Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients' lives in the balance

A handful of factories in Europe supply most of America's propofol, the sedative used to keep coronavirus patients comfortable in ICU - and stocks are running dangerously low

07.05.20

Decision Machines

The tech firms getting their hands on NHS patient data to fight coronavirus

An investigation by the Bureau has found that technology companies are getting access to data that has previously been tightly controlled to help build apps to slow the disease

04.05.20

Smoke Screen

Underage vaping spikes in the north of England

Data analysed by the Bureau shows that more than a fifth of 15-year-olds in Yorkshire and the Humber regularly vape

28.04.20

Decision Machines

Monitoring being pitched to fight Covid-19 was tested on refugees

The pandemic has given a boost to controversial data-driven initiatives to track population movements, developed in response to the so-called migrant crisis of 2015, as part of efforts to stem the tid...

09.04.20

Coronavirus

Drug shortages put worst-hit Covid-19 patients at risk

Drugs needed to keep people on ventilators comfortable are running low in hospital pharmacies in many countries, including the US

07.04.20

Food and Farming

Half of UK chickens produced by US agriculture giants

The data has fuelled concerns about growing American influence over the British food sector

06.04.20

Coronavirus

European doctors running low on drugs needed to treat Covid-19 patients

The European Commission has asked pharmaceutical companies to urgently step up production in the face of shortage, the Bureau can reveal

31.03.20

Global Superbugs

Indian drug companies try to gut antibiotic pollution controls

India’s pharmaceutical industry is trying to weaken a law that would tackle pollution from antibiotics production

30.03.20

Smoke Screen

Big Tobacco criticised for 'coronavirus publicity stunt' after donating ventilators

The world's largest multinational tobacco company PMI has donated 50 ventilators to hospitals fighting coronavirus in Greece

30.03.20

Food and Farming

Brazil thanked Johnson for climbdown over Amazon fires

The prime minister dismissed a threat by President Macron of France to block the Mercosur trade deal with Brazil over the country's failure to deal with the rainforest fires

20.03.20

Smoke Screen

Public Health England paid group linked to Big Tobacco

The New Nicotine Alliance, which calls itself an independent body campaigning for alternatives to cigarettes, has extensive links to a group set up by Philip Morris International

20.03.20

Smoke Screen

PMI sidesteps global health treaty to lobby councils

The world's largest multinational tobacco company offered to work with local authorities and schools, despite rules designed to prevent industry influence on public health policy

09.03.20

Domestic Violence

Lawyers launch super-complaint over police domestic abuse

The Centre for Women's Justice has drawn on reporting from the Bureau to build a complaint over how police forces in England and Wales handle allegations of abuse against officers

06.03.20

Smoke Screen

Government vows to protect health policy from Big Tobacco after Bureau investigation

MPs debated the findings of a Dispatches co-produced by the Bureau that revealed Philip Morris International's proposal for a bill to relax advertising restrictions

24.02.20

Smoke Screen

The ‘Unsmoke’ screen: the truth behind PMI’s cigarette-free future

The world's largest multinational tobacco company said it wanted to go smoke-free - but it still sells billions of cigarettes every year

Council borrowed £1bn from taxpayers to bet on British sunshine

Rockfire Capital: a private firm with millions of pounds of public money

Treasury bans billion-pound council property investments revealed by the Bureau

Councils' bets on property market 'battered' by Covid-19 closures

The race to house Britain's homeless

Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients' lives in the balance

The tech firms getting their hands on NHS patient data to fight coronavirus

Underage vaping spikes in the north of England

Monitoring being pitched to fight Covid-19 was tested on refugees

Drug shortages put worst-hit Covid-19 patients at risk

Half of UK chickens produced by US agriculture giants

European doctors running low on drugs needed to treat Covid-19 patients

Indian drug companies try to gut antibiotic pollution controls

Big Tobacco criticised for 'coronavirus publicity stunt' after donating ventilators

Brazil thanked Johnson for climbdown over Amazon fires

Public Health England paid group linked to Big Tobacco

PMI sidesteps global health treaty to lobby councils

Lawyers launch super-complaint over police domestic abuse

Government vows to protect health policy from Big Tobacco after Bureau investigation

The ‘Unsmoke’ screen: the truth behind PMI’s cigarette-free future

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