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27 January 2023

Zahawi played active role in offshore-linked lender

UK Conservative chairman did not disclose involvement with company led by Matt Hancock’s brother

19 January 2023

UK minister’s tax claims under scrutiny for offshore loan

Gibraltar lending to party chairman Nadhim Zahawi uncovered by SourceMaterial ‘doesn’t make economic sense’

6 August 2022

Greece’s unjust transition

In one of Europe’s most beleaguered regions, Greece’s ‘Just Transition’ away from coal is providing neither the clean energy nor the jobs it promised

30 June 2022

The Man Behind the Curtain

Rainer Sonntag rode a wave of violence to become one of Germany’s leading neo-Nazis. He was also a communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin

9 May 2022

Greece’s gas trap, Part II

How Athens is blocking the shift to clean energy in favour of fossil fuels

2 March 2022

MPs’ ‘Fair Fuel’ group run by fuel additive salesman

A cross-party group of British MPs lobbied for fuel additives as an alternative to the ban on petrol vehicles while failing to disclose it was run by a fuel additive salesman

23 February 2021

Plastic Patriots

Ineos, the controversial chemicals giant that turns fracked gas to plastics, trumpeted its return to the UK. Its billionaire owner, Jim Ratcliffe, appears to be less patriotic about his taxes

4 May 2020

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21 May 2019

Brexit Party candidate spread propaganda for Balkan warlord and was ‘bugged by MI6’

John Kennedy, a former Tory now standing on a list headed by Farage, was monitored by security services for his work with Radovan Karadzic

13 April 2019

The heretic in the Vatican: How Pope Francis became a hate figure for the far right

On a mountain outside Rome, Steve Bannon’s anti-immigrant populism joins forces with Catholic extremists who say a 'gay plague' has infected the Vatican

29 March 2019

Family event in Italy’s ‘city of love’ hides violent ties

A children's rights conference in Verona, the “city of love”, is linked to an extremist group whose members have been accused of violent attacks