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Police forces have arrested 18 people and searched locations across the world in a massive investigation into global scam networks – including one we exposed recently
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🚨 We are looking for an experienced editor to lead our Enablers team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract

Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum depending on experience
Contract: Fixed term maternity cover, full time, 11 months
Location: London (hybrid)
Deadline: Wednesday 26th November
We’re hiring! Apply to be our Enablers Editor (Maternity cover)
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This year’s Cop30 is starting next week – it's an important opportunity for us to hold our governments accountable

But is it all just a talking shop or will it actually make a difference?
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🚨 An MP has demanded HMRC release its official estimate of how much tax is being lost to offshore havens – information we discovered is currently being withheld by the authority
HMRC won't admit how much tax is lost offshore
The taxman has the numbers needed to estimate how much cash is lost to overseas havens – but it isn't sharing the details
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Indonesia committed to phasing out coal in 2022, with $20bn of help from wealthy nations and banks

But, since then, these very same big banks have also been funding companies driving the expansion of coal in the country

📸 Garry Andrew Lotulung / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
JBS is the world’s biggest meat company – it has sold diseased meat, been accused of workers’ rights abuses, been implicated in using child labour, and linked to deforestation in the Amazon

Now it’s expected to talk up sustainable farming at Cop30

Cris Faga/NurPhoto, Getty
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change

Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Doing journalism differently: how we built our latest collaborative…
For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Remember this story from last week?

Character.AI will ban all under-18s from talking to its chatbots next month after we revealed harmful and manipulative bots on the platform
We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein

Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Millions of pounds of UK taxpayer money was supposed to help developing countries deal with the climate crisis – instead, where did it go?

To billionaire-owned luxury carmakers, a company building new gas-fired power, and telecoms giants
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Climate journalists in Europe and North America often write about the forest as a resource, or something that can be quantified

But what if the forest is your home or a part of you?

For our first Cop30 story, we spoke to 100 Indigenous people from the world’s tropical forests
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
If we want to ensure that this year's climate summit isn’t yet another cop out, negotiators inside the venue must be held accountable to those on the frontlines 🌎
Why we're investigating key issues at the Cop30 climate summit in…
Negotiators at this year’s climate talks in Belém must be held accountable for advancing climate action – and for protecting those on the frontlines.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The incoming victims’ commissioner has called for an urgent review of all family cases involving Melanie Gill – an unregulated psychologist who has given evidence up to 200 times
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🚨 A mother has won a landmark legal battle to overturn the evidence of an unregulated psychologist that resulted in her losing custody of her daughters
Mum who lost custody of children has expert’s evidence overturned
Landmark decision could prompt challenges to other cases involving unregulated expert Melanie Gill
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The family courts will stop operating on the presumption that a child should have contact with both parents following a decision intended to improve the safety of children
‘Momentous’ change to family courts aims to keep children safe from…
Presumption that child should have contact with both parents will be scrapped in landmark win for campaigners
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein

Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We’re hiring! Apply to be our AI reporter

- £44,100 - £49,000 depending on experience
- Fixed term 12 month contract
- London (hybrid)
- Apply by November 4, 6pm
We’re hiring! Apply to be our AI reporter
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Combine the explosion of generative AI with shaky moderation on social media and you get ‘content creators’ posting hateful videos – and sometimes even profiting from it
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Racist and violent AI-generated videos – some showing migrants on boats getting killed – are being used to gain followers and even make money on TikTok

This video alone racked up half a million views 👇
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Palestinians are returning to the rubble where their homes once stood

But experts have warned that two years of Israel’s bombardment have filled Gaza’s landscape with a toxic mix of shattered concrete, asbestos dust and contaminated water
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What happens when you lose track of 140,000 cows?

It may sound like a ridiculous question, but it’s one that could have devastating consequences for the UK farming industry – and risk public health
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The family courts are failing to take domestic abuse seriously despite it featuring in 9 out of 10 cases, according to a new report

It says children are being put at risk by a court system that takes a dismissive attitude towards victims
Family courts’ failure to tackle domestic abuse laid out in damning…
Dismissiveness towards victims, ignorance of abuse and pervasive pro-contact culture found to be putting children at risk
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Last month, parents in India noticed something wrong: their children weren’t recovering from ordinary colds and fevers – within days, their kidneys failed

By early October, 24 children died

The cause? Children's cough syrup contaminated with antifreeze
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hours after burying his wife, two children and grandson, Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh went back on air to continue reporting

His ability to continue his job while Israel killed tens of thousands of Gazans around him has turned him into an icon of bravery
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
London libel firm Carter-Ruck tried to “silence” a police investigator who had been trying to protect the public from a $4bn crypto scam, new court documents reveal
City lawyers tried to ‘silence’ police fraud investigator
Carter-Ruck launched campaign against London detective on behalf of $4bn crypto scam, according to court documents
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Last year, Nadine made headlines after she was awarded £65,000 for unfair dismissal by Peckham Levels

Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM