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22 June 2021
Health company favoured by Hancock linked to Tory donors
Shareholders in Babylon Healthcare made donations to Conservatives and Hancock’s 2019 leadership campaign
22 June 2021
Cummings pushed NHS to skirt funding rules for data project
Leaked emails show PM’s aide told head of NHSX ‘no delay please – just send immediately’
23 February 2021
Plastic Patriots
Ineos, the controversial chemicals giant that turns fracked gas to plastics, trumpeted its return to the UK. Its billionaire owner, Jim Ratcliffe, appears to be less patriotic about his taxes
7 February 2021
Revealed: The fossil fuel projects in line for UK support despite ban
Offshore oil drilling in Brazil, a gas pipeline in Turkmenistan and power stations in Iraq among the projects that could still be approved
4 February 2021
Dirty white elephants
Incinerators were supposed to solve the UK’s waste crisis. Are they making it worse?
18 January 2021
UK helped arm Brazilian police during Rio’s deadliest year on record
The UK government facilitated arms sales which went to a police force that killed almost 2,000 civilians – twice as many as police in the US – in a single year
4 December 2020
Revealed: Northern Ireland officials used dodgy numbers to secure biogas bonanza
Documents obtained by SourceMaterial show how a tiny tweak in a ministry submission to Brussels unlocked hundreds of millions in subsidies
10 November 2020
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Kazakh Millions
A new investigation solves a five-year riddle—and raises more questions about secretive investments in London
17 September 2020
Brexit trade adviser’s lobbying ties raise fresh conflict of interest questions
Shanker Singham reappointed to key British trade commission as documents show advisory company lobbied Biden allies for post-Brexit trade deal
10 September 2020
Africa girls project is first casualty of UK cuts as government shifts Rwanda aid to Tesco
As the UK government scraps its international development department, a programme to help women and girls in Rwanda suffers the consequences
6 July 2020
UK export agency waited a year before reporting Airbus corruption evidence
A government body sat on clear evidence of corruption by Airbus for more than a year before raising the alarm