Paul Caruana Galizia became a reporter after his mother Daphne was assassinated and since then has won some journalism awards and, with his two brothers, a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for tax justice heroism. He is from Malta.
Paul Caruana Galizia
Editor and reporter
“Tortoise gives me time to report the full story.”
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Wednesday 13 July 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Making sense of Londongrad, with Paul Caruana-Galizia
What does the story of the oligarchs say about Britain?
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Monday 6 November 2023
Billionaire behind National Lottery operator in Gazprom joint venture
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Wednesday 1 November 2023
Odey calls it quits
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Friday 29 September 2023
Crispin Odey falsely claimed accusers paid Tortoise to report on allegations
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Thursday 28 September 2023
Odey calls sexual assault allegations a “witch hunt” during call with Weinstein’s private investigator
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Thursday 21 September 2023
What’s the deal between Prince William and Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids?
Prince William has been basking in a little New York adulation. It’s as if he’s left the bad old days of the Cold War with the press behind him. So what’s the deal between him and Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids?
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Wednesday 20 September 2023
And then there were 20
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Monday 10 July 2023
Crispin Odey faces a second civil claim over sexual assault allegations
Odey has strenuously denied all allegations against him – but if the claims succeed, damages could run to six figures for each claimant.
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Thursday 29 June 2023
An alleged victim launches the first known civil claim against Crispin Odey
The lawyer instructed to bring the claim has acted for victims of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein
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Monday 26 June 2023
MI5 visited Downing Street to warn Boris Johnson against Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage
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Friday 16 June 2023
Odey staged a coup – the FCA waved it through
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Friday 16 June 2023
Authority vacuum
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Wednesday 14 June 2023
How Odey the Octopus evaded scrutiny
He sacked the executives appointed to monitor his behaviour, and regulators failed to intervene
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Wednesday 14 June 2023
Trump arraigned
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Thursday 8 June 2023
Hedge fund manager accused by thirteen women
The hedge fund manager known as the Octopus now stands accused by 13 women
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Thursday 1 June 2023
Alexander Lebedev sanctioned by Ukraine over Russia’s war
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Tuesday 2 May 2023
Iranian hit squads
What just happened
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Tuesday 14 February 2023
Sensemaker: Harry vs the press
What just happened
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Wednesday 18 January 2023
Sensemaker: A puzzle worth solving
What just happened
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Tuesday 10 January 2023
Sensemaker: Who Pays the Piper?
What just happened
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Friday 9 December 2022
Sensemaker: Odey accused
What just happened
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Monday 5 December 2022
Octopus: the allegations against Crispin Odey
One of Britain’s richest and most powerful men was cleared of sexual assault last year. Four more women have now come forward with similar allegations that Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Conservative party, sexually assaulted them. Other women allege that he sexually harassed them at the offices of his Mayfair hedge fund company
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Wednesday 24 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Truss fund
What just happened
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Wednesday 27 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Tax and growth in the UK
What just happened
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Wednesday 20 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Lebedevs and sanctions
What just happened
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Wednesday 13 July 2022
The Johnson Affair
A former KGB officer, the foreign secretary, and an Italian palazzo in the wake of the Skripal poisonings – the meeting that may come to define Boris Johnson’s political career
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Wednesday 13 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Johnson Affair
What just happened
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Tuesday 12 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Democracy in crisis
What just happened
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Tuesday 5 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Labour and Brexit
What just happened
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Tuesday 28 June 2022
How the Lebedevs partied their way to power
The Lebedevs’ ascent reveals how easy it was for Britain to be bought
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Tuesday 28 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Nato redux
What just happened
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Tuesday 21 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vanishing trillions
What just happened
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Tuesday 14 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Rwanda bound
What just happened
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Tuesday 31 May 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Boris Johnson’s money
What just happened
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Tuesday 17 May 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The great unequaliser
What just happened
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
Lee Way
Xi Jinping has a new enforcer in Hong Kong: John Lee, a man who wants zero Covid and zero dissent
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Lee way
What just happened
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Tuesday 3 May 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Battle for Donbas
What just happened
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Tuesday 26 April 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: China Covid syndrome
What just happened
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Tuesday 19 April 2022
The Rwanda plan
Outsourcing asylum claims is not a new idea, but if history’s any guide it is enormously expensive
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Tuesday 19 April 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Rwanda Plan
What just happened
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Tuesday 12 April 2022
Return of the dynasty
Pakistan’s new prime minister faces charges of laundering $30 million. But at least he didn’t dissolve parliament and threaten martial law, like his predecessor
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Tuesday 12 April 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Return of the dynasty
What just happened
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Tuesday 22 March 2022
Peace talks
For the first time, Zelensky has proposed a referendum to decide the fate of Crimea and the Donbas. That doesn’t mean he’s ready to give them up though. It may mean just the opposite
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Tuesday 22 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Peace talks
What just happened
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Tuesday 15 March 2022
Truth to power
It is vital for Putin that a majority of Russians go on believing his lies. That is why it matters when a producer on a flagship state-run TV news bulletin runs onto the set with a placard denouncing them
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Tuesday 15 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Truth to power
What just happened
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Tuesday 8 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Food fallout
What just happened
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Monday 7 March 2022
Johnson had a pandemic to deal with, but he also had a friend to promote
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Thursday 3 March 2022
“World War Three is already here” – says the woman who confronted Johnson
Paul Caruana Galizia reports from Warsaw
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Wednesday 2 March 2022
Voices from the border
Paul Caruana Galizia and Gary Marshall report from Krościenko
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Monday 28 February 2022
View from the border
Paul Caruana Galizia reports from Przemyśl
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Monday 28 February 2022
Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Evgeny Lebedev: In pictures
Little is publicly known about Evgeny Lebedev’s rise to the upper echelons of the British establishment – but there are plenty of photographs
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Thursday 10 February 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Expensive life
What just happened
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Tuesday 1 February 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: On borrowed time
What just happened
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Tuesday 25 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Afghanistan, 2022
What just happened
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Tuesday 18 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Is it over?
What just happened
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Tuesday 11 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Elgin Marbles
What just happened
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Wednesday 5 January 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Opportunity cost
What just happened
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Thursday 16 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Nuclear Biscuit
What just happened
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Tuesday 14 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Omicron goes global
What just happened
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Tuesday 14 December 2021
A tale of two piers
Brighton’s Palace Pier, built in 1899, is still standing proud but the once regal West Pier is a different story, writes Paul Caruana Galizia
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Thursday 9 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Plan B – boot Boris?
What just happened
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Tuesday 7 December 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Dysfunction and chaos?
What just happened
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Tuesday 30 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Maxwell trial
What just happened
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Wednesday 24 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Great Migration
What just happened
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Thursday 18 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Holy moly
What just happened
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Tuesday 16 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: New lockdowns
What just happened
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Thursday 11 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Trapped in Whitehall
What just happened
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Thursday 11 November 2021
The final curtain
Did exposure to asbestos in the National Theatre contribute to an actor’s death? Paul Caruana Galizia investigates
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Tuesday 9 November 2021
10 minute read Sensemaker: Parliamentary sleaze
What just happened
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Monday 8 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Get serious week
What just happened
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Friday 5 November 2021
10 minute read Sensemaker: Covid in Europe
What just happened
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Thursday 4 November 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: British corruption
What just happened
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Wednesday 3 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Bosnia
What just happened
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Thursday 28 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Interest and inflation
What just happened
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Tuesday 26 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Got your back
What just happened
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Thursday 21 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Sajid Javid Covid
What just happened
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Wednesday 20 October 2021
Pills don’t cure poverty
Official data shows that the prescription of antidepressants is highest in areas of deprivation. But medication can only mask the suffering that poor services, housing and health conditions cause. It is no solution.
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Tuesday 19 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The Great Resignation
What just happened
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Thursday 14 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The protocol stand-off
What just happened
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Tuesday 12 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Noble economics
What just happened
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Friday 8 October 2021
The meaning of Petrofac
This week, the company was fined for failing to prevent bribes. The case shows just how the oil and gas industries really work – and who loses out
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Thursday 7 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Party of power?
What just happened
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Tuesday 5 October 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Facebook down
What just happened
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Thursday 30 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Pfizer’s pandemic
What just happened
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Tuesday 28 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Inflation
What just happened
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Friday 24 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Johnson MIA
What just happened
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Thursday 23 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Nevergrande
What just happened
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Wednesday 22 September 2021
The UK is already a money laundering hotspot. It could get worse
Tortoise has received leaked documents that reveal more of the country’s position in international laundering networks. At the same time, the government is trying to loosen financial regulations
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Tuesday 21 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: America first, Haiti last
What just happened
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Friday 17 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Shine a light
What just happened
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Thursday 16 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Long Johnson
What just happened
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Thursday 16 September 2021
The Arms Race
The Covid coup
Tunisia’s leader used vaccine shortages to take power, and then vaccine supply to consolidate his new position
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Tuesday 14 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Taliban words and actions
What just happened
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Thursday 9 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: El Salvador
What just happened
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Thursday 9 September 2021
The Arms Race
A global shame: Millions of preventable deaths
Vaccination against Covid has saved 100,000 lives in England. How many lives would have been saved by a similar effort around the world?
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Tuesday 7 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Perfect storm
What just happened
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Friday 3 September 2021
The Arms Race
Introducing: #TheArmsRace Vaccine Tracker
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Friday 3 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Back to school
What just happened
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Wednesday 1 September 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Leaving Afghanistan
What just happened
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Tuesday 31 August 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: A country without music
What just happened
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Thursday 29 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Tunisian crisis
What just happened
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Wednesday 28 July 2021
The Arms Race
What we lack in the fight against Covid: information
Data on vaccine donations and deliveries is delayed, incomplete or absent. Opacity on this, the single most important global supply crisis we currently face, is a barrier to ending the pandemic
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Monday 26 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vaccine stockpiling
What just happened
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Thursday 22 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Pandemic of the unvaccinated
What just happened
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Monday 19 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Freedom Day
What just happened
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Tuesday 13 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The great Covid gamble
What just happened
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Monday 12 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Troppo Bello
What just happened
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Thursday 8 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vaccinating America
What just happened
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Tuesday 6 July 2021
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Vaccine neighbourhoods
What just happened
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Friday 25 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Shots fired
What just happened
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Thursday 24 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Hong Kong crackdown
What just happened
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Google this
What just happened
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Tuesday 22 June 2021
Extreme drought
Brazil’s southern region has been crippled by a lack of rain in the last year, an event that’s been attributed to the inversion of La Niña. But why has it reversed? And why now?
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Monday 21 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Covid nations
What just happened
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Friday 18 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Wealth tax
What just happened
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Thursday 17 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Biden-Putin summit
What just happened
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Wednesday 16 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Murder and institutional corruption
What just happened
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Tuesday 15 June 2021
Summit happened
The world leaders left the G7 Summit in Cornwall yesterday promising “a green revolution”. But will their pledge actually translate into meaningful action?
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Monday 14 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The West vs Autocrats
What just happened
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Wednesday 9 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: American myth
What just happened
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Tuesday 8 June 2021
A death at Lancaster Lodge
Fatal flaws
The death of Sophie Bennett might have been prevented – were it not for a series of failures by those entrusted with her care, including the state
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Monday 7 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Historic tax deal
What just happened
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Friday 4 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Britain’s big moment
What just happened
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Thursday 3 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Capitol crimes
What just happened
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Wednesday 2 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Three-child China
What just happened
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Monday 24 May 2021
10 minute readOff the deep end
What just happened
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Thursday 20 May 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The great chip shortage
What just happened
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Thursday 13 May 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Total global failure
What just happened
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Thursday 6 May 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Another pandemic
What just happened
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Friday 30 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The Covid baby bust
What just happened
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Monday 26 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: India burning
What just happened
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Thursday 22 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Fossil fools
What just happened
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Monday 19 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Boom time
What just happened
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Thursday 1 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Crisis in Brazil
What just happened
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Wednesday 31 March 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: An international beacon of racial equality
What just happened
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Wednesday 10 March 2021
Russia
Dirty Money
Russian corruption has been endemic for years; long enough for the watchdogs to know how it operates by laundering money through front companies. Why does the UK still make it so easy to pull off those old, corrupt tricks?
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Thursday 4 February 2021
Corinna & the king
Further reading
This was a love story, just one with lots of money involved. Now keep on turning the pages
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Wednesday 3 February 2021
Corinna & the king
Secret stash
How much money does Juan Carlos have? We’ve tried our best to find out
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Tuesday 2 February 2021
Corinna & the king
Between friends
They were meant to be secret: money transfers between Saudi Arabia and King Juan Carlos of Spain, and then between the king and his lover. But they came mercilessly to light
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Thursday 21 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: New US management
What just happened
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Friday 11 December 2020
Paul Caruana Galizia: Hearing from a deposed prime minster
Joseph Muscat, former leader of Malta, has been testifying at the public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination
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Tuesday 6 October 2020
10 minute read
Test and trace
Testing is GREAT
What the data tells us about Covid-19 testing failings
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Saturday 23 November 2019
Reasons to fight
This week a key suspect in my mother’s murder was arrested. The conspiracy to protect her killers is finally beginning to crumble
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Saturday 1 June 2019
10 minute read
Dirty money, bloody murder
- The killing of a Latvian bankruptcy lawyer one year ago remains unsolved
- He was due to look into financial details about a bank linked to money-laundering and North Korea
- The assassination casts a shadow of corruption over Europe, where waves of illicit money are crashing on its eastern borders
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Tuesday 23 April 2019
10 minute read
Lording it
- Greg Barker has gone from being an MP and David Cameron’s climate change envoy to chairing one of the biggest aluminium and energy companies in Russia
- He used his corporate lobbying experience, and his title of Lord Barker, to overturn US Treasury sanctions against the company of Oleg Deripaska, a powerful oligarch and one of Putin’s cronies
- Barker claims that his company, En+, is an example of green energy, but environmentalists say it is one of the biggest polluters in Russia
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Monday 6 November 2023
The lottery winner
Paul Caruana Galizia investigates how a lucrative contract to run the UK’s National Lottery was awarded to a company whose Czech billionaire owner retains links with Russia.
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Monday 18 September 2023
William and Rupert: the prince and press baron
Paul Caruana Galizia investigates whether Prince William reached a secret out of court settlement with Rupert Murdoch and News Group over phone hacking. What were the terms of the reported deal and how much money changed hands?
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Monday 3 July 2023
Crispin Odey: The octopus’s world
How serious money, polite society and the law enabled Crispin Odey, one of the UK’s most successful and powerful hedge funders, amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment and assault over many decades
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Friday 16 June 2023
The allegations against Crispin Odey
Crispin Odey, one of Britain’s richest men and a powerful political donor, has been accused of sexual misconduct by thirteen women.
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Tuesday 9 May 2023
Department 15
A Hell’s Angels leader and an international heroin trafficker are just some of the unlikely hires for Iranian plots abroad. Who else is Iran commissioning for its assassinations and abductions?
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Tuesday 9 May 2023
The State
There are many competing visions for Iran and for what the country could become – in this final episode, Paul asks whether enough is being done to protect Iranians overseas.
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Tuesday 2 May 2023
Threat to life
London-based critics of the regime in Tehran face growing threats to their lives. Paul Caruana Galizia investigates why this is happening – and who is doing it
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Tuesday 2 May 2023
Building 11
A lost photographer in a Chiswick business park, a nervous phone caller in LA and a speedboat bound for Caracas – who exactly are the hit men behind the threats?
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Monday 13 February 2023
The prince against the press
The Harry show – the bestselling memoir, the Netflix documentary, the rounds of television interviews – isn’t over. In fact, it’s only just begun: the prince’s legal claims against Britain’s biggest media groups are headed to court this summer
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Monday 19 December 2022
2022 picks – Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?
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Monday 5 December 2022
Octopus: The allegations against Crispin Odey
One of Britain’s richest and most powerful men was cleared of sexual assault last year. Four more women have come forward with similar allegations that Crispin Odey, a major donor to the Conservative party, sexually assaulted them. Other women allege that he sexually harassed them at the offices of his Mayfair hedge fund company
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Tuesday 4 October 2022
Shorting the pound
There have been reports that some hedge-fund bosses made huge profits by betting that the pound would fall. They did it by shorting the market. How does it work?
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Tuesday 27 September 2022
Maxi budget
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng set out the government’s economic plans in a so-called mini budget. But his tax cuts and plans for government borrowing are some of the biggest in living memory.
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Tuesday 30 August 2022
Thank the Lord
Peter Cruddas is a self-made billionaire, a Conservative party donor and now, a Lord. His rise reveals a lot about Boris Johnson’s battle with parliament
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Tuesday 12 July 2022
Londongrad: The Johnson Affair
A former KGB officer, Britain’s foreign secretary – and a potential national security breach
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Thursday 23 June 2022
Episode 6: Lord of the spies
It’s no secret that political patronage can get you a place in the House of Lords. But even people who understand the system well – even peers themselves – were appalled when Boris Johnson decided to extend his patronage to Evgeny Lebedev.
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Thursday 16 June 2022
Episode 5: A blind eye
The Intelligence and Security Committee of the British Parliament produced a report into Russian interference in British democracy. Boris Johnson saw it before his general election landslide in 2019. But his government went out of its way to make sure it didn’t see the light of day until long after the election had been fought and won
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Thursday 9 June 2022
Episode 4: Doubling down
Years of warnings about Russia’s intentions had gone unheeded; discounted as scaremongering. But then came the invasion of Crimea, and the end of any doubts. In spite of it all, the Lebedevs’ ascent in London continued, and so did the extraordinary parties
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Thursday 2 June 2022
Episode 3: Project Venus
There comes a moment in any successful invasion of a country when you can no longer hide, your plans have to become obvious. It’s a moment of jeopardy but if you can get through it – as Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev did in Britain when they bought first the Evening Standard and later The Independent – then the scale of your ambitions can shift dramatically
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Thursday 2 June 2022
Episode 2: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Moscow
The oligarchs who made their way to London in the early 2000s and changed it presented themselves as embodiments of the new Russia; members of the global elite, and arms-length beneficiaries of Vladimir Putin’s new order, not slaves to it. Those were the terms on which Britain let them in, but it was mugged
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Thursday 2 June 2022
Episode 1: The advance party
Britain prides itself on being impregnable; a country which hasn’t been invaded for 1000 years and can’t be bought. The Lebedevs give the lie to all that. They spent a lot, but not a fortune, buying their way into British public life. And they did it in a way which perhaps nobody had tried before: they amused the people who mattered
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Monday 11 April 2022
Greg Barker: the lord’s work
The days of the Russian oligarch in London are numbered. What fate awaits the enablers – those well-connected people who worked for and provided services to wealthy Russians? This is the story of one of them
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Monday 7 March 2022
Nato says no to Ukraine no-fly zone
Activist Daria Kaleniuk made an impassioned plea to Boris Johnson for a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but Nato doesn’t want to risk a direct confrontation with Russia. She tells Tortoise why she thinks it is the wrong decision
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Monday 28 February 2022
Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
A moment of pride in the NFL
No professional American footballer has ever come out as gay while he was still playing. That changed this week thanks to Carl Nassib.
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Monday 7 June 2021
A death at Lancaster Lodge
Sophie Bennett took her own life in a care facility that was crumbling around her. Paul Caruana Galizia and Chris Cook investigate what went wrong at a charity led by a famous mental health pioneer
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Monday 1 February 2021
The money hunt
They occupied a world of high-rolling hunting parties and complicated gifts – until it went seriously wrong.
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Thursday 27 February 2020
The last domino
Within months of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, three hitmen were arrested for the crime. Then – nothing.
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Thursday 20 February 2020
Truth to power
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a prolific reporter, juggling dozens of stories at the same time. One of those stories held the secret to her assassination. But which one?
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Thursday 13 February 2020
An assassination foretold
In October 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in Malta where she lived and worked. Her son Paul, a reporter at Tortoise, says her family were ‘shocked but not surprised’ at her death.
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Sunday 9 February 2020
My mother’s murder
It is a little over two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist, died in a car bomb, and the shock is still being felt.