/ 23 December 2005

Beware the mafiosi

Journalists don’t often get the chance to set the agenda, to pursue a theme. Even in investigative journalism, the pressure of events and unplanned story opportunities plays havoc with attempts to follow a systematic track.

However this year, my colleague Stefaans Brümmer and I were able to bring a long-term theme of investigation to fruition through the Oilgate exposÃ