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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.
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.
PowerHow Companies Spy on Their Employees
Explore how workplace surveillance software tracks employees through keystrokes, webcams, GPS, and biometrics. Learn about the scale of monitoring, its psychological impact, and the legal landscape.
PowerHow Journalism Led to the Death of Dr David Kelly
The harrowing story of Dr David Kelly, the British weapons expert whose death in 2003 exposed the deadly collision between government spin, BBC journalism, and the Iraq War's 'sexed-up dossier'.
PowerLance Armstrong: The Biggest Cheat in History.
The remarkable rise and spectacular fall of Lance Armstrong, from seven-time Tour de France champion to disgraced doper. How the biggest cheat in cycling history built a global brand on lies, and why his legacy remains debated today.
PowerMax Clifford: The Man Who Manipulated the Truth
How Max Clifford built an empire manipulating the British tabloid press, engineered scandals and sham relationships for the powerful, and ultimately fell victim to the culture of silence he helped create.
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 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.
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.
PowerThe Green Run: Hanford’s Secret Radioactive Release
In 1949, the U.S. government deliberately released radioactive iodine over rural Washington to test Cold War monitoring systems—without telling the communities below.
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.
PowerWonga & The Payday Loan Sharks
The rise and fall of Wonga, the UK's most infamous payday lender, and how its 5,853% APR business model exploited financial desperation at scale—only to be reborn in modern "financial wellbeing" apps.