investigative journalism

English civil law has become a luxury good beyond the reach of most of us

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Tom Burgis makes this painfully clear in his account of the long hounding of the former MP Charlotte Leslie by the vengeful millionaire Mohamed Amersi

A horrifying glimpse of Syria’s torture cells

30 September 2023 9:00 am

More than 100 interviews with surviving detainees and former prison workers reveal how profoundly shocking President Assad’s regime continues to be

A belter of a podcast, featuring a mad South African: Smoke Screen reviewed

23 July 2022 9:00 am

I go back and forth on tobacco companies. On the one hand, they are merchants of death. On the other,…

Where is Ruja Ignatova, the self-styled cryptoqueen, hiding?

2 July 2022 9:00 am

This is a depressing book. It’s a reminder of everything that is sick, broken and generally maledicted about the human…

The scandal of American shipping – incompetence, venality and shocking safety standards

16 June 2018 9:00 am

‘We are globalisation,’ a senior executive at the shipping company Maersk told me. ‘We enable it, and we have questions…

‘A public urinal where ministers and officials queued up to leak’

22 March 2014 9:00 am

Anyone brought up as I was in a Daily Express household in the 1950s — there were approaching 11 million…