Corruption

Boris Johnson strides along a corridor on his way to prime minister's questions
What We Think

Resist Boris Johnson and the Tories on every front

Hit them on the war and everything else
03 May 2022
Andrew Fahie has officially been sworn in as the new Premier of the British Virgin Islands
The Troublemaker

Nothing more British than tax avoiding and drug dealing

Troublemaker looks at the week's news
03 May 2022
Boris Johnson sit on bench in Canary Wharf
News

Sunak tax scandal is a chance to bring down the Tories

Sunak's tax scandal engulfs Tories
11 April 2022
Liz Truss, Theresa May and Russian oligarch Lubov Chernukin on a fancy night out
Comment

Thick as thieves—how London has lured the oligarchs

British politicians want a share of the spoils
07 March 2022
Boris Johnson with arm raised in wave in front of clocks of different parts of the world and two Union Jack flags
News

Tory donors joined elite board and grabbed access to Number 10

Their money meant they could shape policy
20 February 2022
Sacked Cressida Dick and home secretary Priti Patel in March 2021
News

Top police boss Dick axed but rotten cops still in force

The rest of her force should follow
15 February 2022
a mural in belfast
The Troublemaker

State collusion rife in Derry Loyalist murder gang

State deaths quads in Derry, Phillip Green still trousering cash
17 January 2022
The Carillion collapse and capital
Background Check

KPMG—auditor’s Carillion cover-up is part of ‘endemic’ problem

KPMG knowingly hid Carillion’s financial problems
17 January 2022
Former Labour prime minister and warmonger Tony Blair
Alex Callinicos

Blair’s ‘honour’ is a symbol of the system

Tony Blair received a special New Year Honour from the Queen
03 January 2022
Paedophile prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts (middle) in the London flat of Ghislaine Maxwell (far right)
News

Ghislaine Maxwell conviction is damning for prince Andrew

The Prince’s friend was convicted of child trafficking
03 January 2022
Features

Grenfell activists rage against guilty companies

Activists took protests to gates of killer corporation
15 December 2021
A scan of a grainy photograph of Daniel Morgan
News

Morgan family to sue police over corruption

The family slammed Met commissioner Cressida Dick
13 December 2021
News

Could Boris Johnson be on the way out at last?

The Tories are in deep crisis
13 December 2021
Prime minister's former spokesperson Allegra Stratton stands in front of two Union jacks
News

A lobby of liars—the system behind people such as Allegra Stratton

The parliamentary lobby restricts information
10 December 2021
British Airways plane blown up by Iraqi forces in Kuwait before it took off
The Troublemaker

Tories admit a bit but Kuwait flight cover up continues

British Airways was not warned about an Iraqi invasion in 1990
30 November 2021
Boris Johnson speaks at CBI conference in front of a backdrop saying "Seize the Time"
What We Think

Tories on the rocks, but Starmer steers Labour rightwards

It's time to drive out Boris Johnson
23 November 2021
News

Avalanche of Tory sleaze puts Johnson on the back foot

The Tories web of corruption is being revealed
15 November 2021
Features

The Virgin Islands—Britain’s worst-kept corruption secret

Britain's corruption is flown out to The Virgin Islands
12 November 2021
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Alex Callinicos

Can Johnson escape another scandal?

It’s undeniable that British politics is institutionally corrupt. The most visible form is how ex-ministers and senior civil servants seek to cash in on their experience and connections when they leave government. It is engaging in this practice that has been the undoing for the wretched Owen Paterson. The collapse of the dodgy financial firm...
08 November 2021
Owen Patterson
News

Corruption scandal—Tories used pandemic for profit

During the pandemic Tory MPs cashed in through lobbying
08 November 2021
Cops still spy on left
News

Cops still spy on left

A police unit in Wales tried to recruit a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist as an informant—the latest evidence of institutional racism within the police.
26 October 2021
Johnson’s deadly calculus—let 50,000 die a year to keep profits flowing
The Troublemaker

43,000 people given the wrong Covid test results

At least 43,000 people may have been wrongly given a negative Covid-19 test result, the UK Health Security Agency has said.
19 October 2021
Cops’ horrific sexism meant victimisation for speaking out
The Troublemaker

Cops’ horrific sexism meant victimisation for speaking out

A woman firearms officer was victimised by Police Scotland colleagues in a “horrific” workplace culture condemned as an “absolute boys’ club”, an employment tribunal found last week.
12 October 2021
Bosses want to pull the plug on Labour plan to nationalise energy network
The Troublemaker

We end up paying the bills for energy market chaos

When an energy firm goes under, every other household in Britain is left paying the cost for a new firm to take on its customers.
28 September 2021