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26 published articles across 4 project desks.
PowerThe Camelford Water Poisoning: Britain’s Worst Mass Contamination
In 1988, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were dumped into Camelford's drinking water supply. South West Water Authority told 20,000 residents it was safe. Decades later, nobody has been held properly accountable.
PowerThe Lobbyist Who Bought a Senate
For a decade, one man funnelled millions through shell organizations to hand-pick senators and rewrite legislation. Here is what the indictment left out.
PowerThe Private Parking Industry Is a Scam (And It’s Perfectly Legal)
How private parking companies use government data, Supreme Court precedent, and regulatory loopholes to turn minor mistakes into a billion-pound industry of automated enforcement.
PowerGangmasters: The UK’s Hidden Slavery Problem
How cheap food and disposable labour created a space where exploitation thrives, how the UK tried to fix it after Morecambe Bay, and how modern slavery keeps finding its way onto supermarket shelves.
FameInside a Studio Cover-Up
An NDA, a crisis firm, a settlement fund in the production budget. How a major studio suppressed what should have become criminal referrals.
PowerThe BBC Has Been Lying to You for 100 Years
From the General Strike of 1926 to the Trump lawsuit of 2025, explore the shocking history of BBC deception, political bias, and cover-ups that have defined Britain's most controversial broadcaster.
PowerShe Fooled 2 Million Readers (Then It Got Worse)
The shocking true story behind bestselling memoir The Salt Path: how Raynor Winn's tale of walking the South West Coast Path with her terminally ill husband unravelled amid allegations of fraud, fabricated journeys, and a secret earlier book.
MoneyThe Ponzi Next Door
He coached Little League and hosted the neighborhood barbecue. For eleven years he was also running a Ponzi scheme that consumed 312 families' savings.
PowerThe BBC Monster Nobody Talks About
How Stuart Hall, the celebrated BBC broadcaster and OBE recipient, became one of Britain's most prolific child sex offenders—yet remains largely forgotten compared to Jimmy Savile.
PowerDid You Ever Wonder What Became of Dead Zoo Animals?
Discover what happens when zoo animals die—from ancient Egyptian burials to modern necropsies, taxidermy, cremation, and controversial cases like Marius the Giraffe.
PowerPrince Laurent: The Constant Embarrassment of Belgium’s Royal Family
From Libyan desert reforestation schemes to taking phone calls during the national anthem, explore the decades of controversy surrounding Belgium's most eccentric royal, Prince Laurent.
PowerThe MMR Scandal Was Insane
In 1998, Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent Lancet paper linked the MMR vaccine to autism, triggering a decades-long collapse in public trust, the return of measles, and one of modern science's most significant scandals.