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David Leigh
Ex-Guardian investigations editor. Professor of journalism, City University, London. On board of IMPRESS. Retweets not endorsements. Opinions purely personal. David Leigh has over 13207 followers on Twitter.
Pouring oil on troubled waters
With its huge reliance on water and agriculture, Woolworths is vulnerable to any shocks in the supply chain.
‘Robber baron’ the scourge of Uzbekistan
American diplomatic dispatches paint a grim picture of the post-Soviet state of Uzbekistan.
Cheap shots mask the wanton killing
War logs bring home the brutal reality of a civilian population with no recourse to justice.
Global whistle-blowing website shut down
A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up Wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to…
UK tries to sabotage BAE bribes inquiry
The United Kingdom is covertly trying to oust the head of the world’s main anti-bribery watchdog to prevent criticism of ministers and Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE, The…
BAe’s secret £1m to Pinochet
The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office is expected to launch an investigation into disclosures that the British arms company BAe secretly paid more than £1-million to the…
Brits staff Saudi air force
Almost a third of the British government’s arms sales machine is dedicated to selling to a single regime — Saudi Arabia. A United Kingdom Ministry of Defence publication…
How tobacco giant squeezed Blair
Documents obtained by The Guardian newspaper reveal how one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT), put private pressure on British Prime…
Slush fund: BAE chief implicated
Sir Dick Evans, the retiring chairperson of British Aerospace (BAE) who faced his final shareholders’ meeting on Wednesday, has been named in allegations concerning the arms…
Ex-diplomat exposes British spy flaws
A former senior British diplomat on Thursday broke the traditional taboo on discussing British intelligence (MI6) operations to launch a broadside against the United Kingdom…
SAA set for R2bn loss
An internal audit report forecasts a whopping R2-billion loss for South African Airways (SAA) in the 2002/03 financial year — despite the fact that it will notch up a healthy…
Financial scandal hangs over leader in waiting
Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the United States military, Ahmad Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding…