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18.02.21

Is Work Working?

Agency work pits “minnow against the whale”

Almost a million people in the UK depend on outsourced agencies for work, and are left with little hope of justice if something goes wrong

18.02.21

Is Work Working?

Amazon’s empty pledge leaves agency workers without shifts and pay

Company policy against zero-hours contracts falls flat with warehouse workers 'treated like disposable labour'

13.02.21

Environment

Walmart among US retail giants selling beef linked to Amazon destruction

Campaigners call for major grocers to cut ties with controversial Brazilian meat firm JBS

06.02.21

Global Health

The next Covid crisis: a vaccine apartheid endangering us all

Unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will harm all of us – leaving reservoirs for the virus across the world in which new, potentially more dangerous strains will emerge and spread

31.01.21

Big Tech

Misinformation market: The money-making tools Facebook hands to Covid cranks

The Bureau has found hundreds of pages using monetisation tools designed by Facebook while spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

27.01.21

Our Impact

2020 investigations and impact

A look back at the stories we revealed over the last year, and the change they helped drive

12.01.21

The Enablers

Owner of Tory donor company chaired firm linked to Russian corruption allegations

Tycoon whose company benefited from state pipeline contract now awaits UK government approval for billion-pound construction project

17.12.20

Local Power

Council faces £20m loss after secretive investment goes bad

Thurrock council poured taxpayers' millions into energy company that used cash to set up credit business

16.12.20

Big Tech

The rapid rise of phone surveillance firms

An investigation has found evidence of phone intrusions by private intelligence companies in more than 60 countries. How did we get to this point?

16.12.20

Big Tech

Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world

A security vulnerability in phone technology is being exploited by private intelligence companies via small networks in Jersey and Guernsey

08.12.20

Big Tech

Revealed: Mark Zuckerberg threatened to pull UK investment in secret meeting with Matt Hancock

The Facebook CEO's threat can be revealed by the Bureau after a two-year fight to make notes from the meeting in 2018 public

25.11.20

Environment

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

25.11.20

Environment

Cargill: the company feeding the world by helping destroy the planet

It's a controversial corporate giant that transformed how we eat and has the global food industry in its grip. So why haven't we heard of it?

25.11.20

Health

Imprisoned under the cover of Covid

How new pandemic rules were used to justify a violent raid on an LGBTQ+ homeless shelter in Uganda

25.11.20

Mapping LGBTQ+ persecution during the pandemic

Emergency legislation is being used to target and abuse LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive people around the world. Here are their stories

20.11.20

Big Tech

How Dominic Cummings wasted the greatest opportunity of his life

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser had a vision of government by data. But when the pandemic gave him a chance to remake the British state, he flunked it

18.11.20

Local Power

'Mother of all rainy days' for councils living on borrowed money and borrowed time

Thurrock council, which borrowed millions from other councils to invest in solar energy, is now relying on government money from the Public Works Loan Board to repay its lenders

06.11.20

Local Power

Trial over Thurrock’s solar investment concludes

The case revolves around a deal for 19 solar farms between Toucan Energy Holdings, owned by Liam Kavanagh, and Wirsol, an energy business

22.10.20

Local Power

Bureau launches action over hidden council finances

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is going to a tribunal to force Thurrock council to release key details of how it has invested huge sums of taxpayers’ money

17.10.20

Local Power

Fraud allegations call £400m council investments into question

Rockfire Capital, the company at the centre of the Bureau’s investigation into Thurrock council’s investment spree, has gone into voluntary liquidation just as another business owned by the same man f...

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