Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset.
- Reader in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
A fellow journalist and academic researcher in the UK’s cold-war propaganda efforts describes his experience meeting the late bestselling author.
Some UK families whose wealth largely derives from the transatlantic slave trade have agreed to pay reparations.
Proposals to toughen the Official Secrets Act are the latest in a long history of efforts designed to prevent government embarrassment.
Politicians have been leaking secrets to journalists as long as newspapers have existed. But it’s getting more difficult thanks to surveillance technology.
Are we seeing Orwell’s dystopian vision of 1984 coming to fruition?
By choosing to talk to MI5’s most outspoken press critics, the spy boss has made a very shrewd move.
Grâce à un lanceur d’alerte et au travail d’un consortium international de journalistes, le rôle central de Panama éclate au grand jour. Au grand dam des plus riches et/ou des plus puissants.
A global collaboration of journalists has revealed massive offshoring of funds linked to some of the world’s most powerful people, including Vladimir Putin.
Always an underdog, the newspaper showed what imagination and rigour could bring to journalism.
Was this the last of the old-school bank ‘capers’?
Recently released secret documents reveal the chilling extent of Cold War planning for a nuclear holocaust.
Increased resources and staffing is a start but security must be properly targeted and accountable to the British people.
A powerful intelligence lobby made up of former defence ministers, police chiefs and intelligence commissioners has emerged in British politics, determined to push for greater powers and resources for…
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