Martin Williams
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United Kingdom
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HCRG Care Group: Private health firm nets £40m profit and pays director £621,000
Healthcare business that was once owned by Richard Branson cashes in from NHS contracts → Read More
openDemocracy is being sued by an organisation linked to a Kazakh dictator
The case against our investigative journalists has already cost openDemocracy tens of thousands of pounds → Read More
NHS cancels thousands of appointments because of Queen’s funeral
Exclusive: Thousands of patients waiting for surgery, maternity checks and some cancer care will be affected → Read More
Truss adviser worked at lobbying firm for energy supplier
Iain Carter was a partner at Hanbury Strategy, which was paid to lobby the government on behalf of Bulb Energy → Read More
Oxford University took millions from key ‘crony’ of Vladimir Putin
Labour MP calls for Oxford to donate oligarch’s money to an anti-corruption campaign → Read More
Revealed: The lobbyist who helps Russian elites get access to Boris Johnson
Former Russian politician Sergey Pechinin tells his clients: ‘We open closed doors’ → Read More
Exclusive: 623 new ‘British’ companies are actually controlled from Russia
It comes amid calls to bring sanctions against oligarchs and restrict the flow of Russian money through British businesses → Read More
200 Russian millionaires bought way into UK in seven years since ‘clampdown’
Exclusive: ‘Golden visa’ scheme afforded oligarchs special treatment despite ‘security concerns’ that eventually saw scheme scrapped → Read More
London is a ‘magnet for dirty money’, says UK government’s anti-corruption tsar
The Conservative MP writes today on openDemocracy that urgent action is needed to stop ‘growing’ levels of fraud → Read More
UK government refuses to say if Sue Gray’s interviews will be published
Exclusive: Fears of partygate ‘whitewash’ as government won’t commit to recording or publishing interviews – or even say who’s being interviewed → Read More
Policing Bill and Elections Bill: What’s next in fight to save UK democracy?
Lords’ defeat of last-minute additions to England and Wales’s Policing Bill hailed as a victory by campaigners, but the fight is far from over → Read More
Cabinet Office fined £500,000 for publishing celebrities’ private addresses
More than 1,000 people – including Elton John and Nadiya Hussain – had home addresses shared by UK government, leading to safety concerns → Read More
99% of calls to UK’s Afghanistan evacuation helpline were never answered
Exclusive: Home Office failed to answer almost three million calls, as Afghans fleeing Taliban say UK government ‘did not care’ about them → Read More
The Welsh government is escaping scrutiny over COVID-19
A landmark report showed Westminster’s terrible mistakes in the pandemic. But Wales made its own mistakes, too → Read More
Record profits for firm involved in bungled £250m PPE deal
Exclusive: Ayanda Capital’s earnings rise by 2,600% after winning huge COVID contract – but masks were rejected by NHS → Read More
The unpublished memos that warned Blair against military action after 9/11
A former Labour minister admits the briefing document was ‘bang to rights’ and ‘should have been acted on’ → Read More
Record profits for Tory donor's firm that won huge PPE contracts
Pandemic was an 'unprecedented opportunity' says Meller Designs, which was fast-tracked in the government’s ‘VIP lane’ → Read More
24 lords placed under investigation over financial interests
Exclusive: Probe by the Standards Commissioner follows openDemocracy revelations of ‘shocking lack of transparency’, in one of the widest-scale breaches ever exposed → Read More
Institute for Economic Affairs loses battle over ‘hard-right lobby group’ comments
'Dark money' think tank complained after openDemocracy journalist’s LBC interview with James O’Brien → Read More
David Cameron met vaccines minister before firm he advises won health contracts
Exclusive: Ex-PM met the vaccines minister to discuss genome sequencing – two months before the genome firm he advises won contracts worth £870,000 → Read More