TBIJ

24.06.20

Global Health

Pandemic proves opportunity for industry power grab

There has been little transparency as businesses lobby the government to shape its economic response during and after coronavirus

17.06.20

The Enablers

The Bureau presses Number 10 to release the delayed Russia report

The Bureau urges Number 10 to publish a long-overdue Russia report by the Intelligence and Security Committee

13.06.20

Big Tech

What happened to Matt Hancock's coronavirus contact-tracing app?

The vaunted app has been mired in difficulties, from development to a glitchy trial run on the Isle of Wight

10.06.20

Local Power

Spelthorne council leader who made billion-pound bet on property market ousted

After the Bureau exposed the council's risky investment strategy, Conservative councillors have voted to replace their leader

04.06.20

Environment

Revealed: UK investors’ $2bn backing for meat giants linked to Amazon deforestation

An analysis by the Bureau and Unearthed has linked British and European banks to funding for Brazil's largest meat companies

03.06.20

Shadow Wars

The families paying the price for the war in Afghanistan

There is a deeply worrying lack of transparency around civilian casualties in Afghanistan almost 20 years after US operations began

03.06.20

Shadow Wars

Finding the faces of Afghanistan's slaughtered civilians

The Bureau and Bellingcat spent two months uncovering mounds of evidence from a list of 21 strikes believed to have killed civilians

25.05.20

Big Tobacco

Big Tobacco use menthol cigarette ban to promote rival products

Big Tobacco has launched new menthol flavours of alternative tobacco and nicotine products in the run up to the menthol ban

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

Global Health

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

Big Tech

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

Big Tobacco

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

Big Tech

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...