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Paul Caruana Galizia
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“Tortoise gives me time to report the full story.”

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.

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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?

Wednesday 18 January 2023

Sensemaker: A puzzle worth solving

What just happened

Tuesday 10 January 2023

Sensemaker: Who Pays the Piper?

What just happened

Friday 9 December 2022

Sensemaker: Odey accused

What just happened

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

Wednesday 24 August 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Truss fund

What just happened

Wednesday 27 July 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Tax and growth in the UK

What just happened

Wednesday 20 July 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Lebedevs and sanctions

What just happened

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

Wednesday 13 July 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Johnson Affair

What just happened

Tuesday 12 July 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Democracy in crisis

What just happened

Tuesday 5 July 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Labour and Brexit

What just happened

Tuesday 28 June 2022

Londongrad: How the Lebedevs partied their way to power

Paul Caruana Galizia’s investigation into the Lebedevs’ ascent to the top of London’s establishment reveals how easy it was for Britain to be bought

Tuesday 28 June 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Nato redux

What just happened

Tuesday 21 June 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Vanishing trillions

What just happened

Tuesday 14 June 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Rwanda bound

What just happened

Tuesday 31 May 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Boris Johnson’s money

What just happened

Tuesday 17 May 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The great unequaliser

What just happened

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

Tuesday 10 May 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Lee way

What just happened

Tuesday 3 May 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Battle for Donbas

What just happened

Tuesday 26 April 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: China Covid syndrome

What just happened

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

Tuesday 19 April 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Rwanda Plan

What just happened

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

Tuesday 12 April 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Return of the dynasty

What just happened

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

Tuesday 22 March 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Peace talks

What just happened

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

Tuesday 15 March 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Truth to power

What just happened

Tuesday 8 March 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Food fallout

What just happened

Monday 7 March 2022

Johnson had a pandemic to deal with, but he also had a friend to promote

Thursday 3 March 2022

“World War Three is already here” – says the woman who confronted Johnson

Paul Caruana Galizia reports from Warsaw

Wednesday 2 March 2022

Voices from the border

Paul Caruana Galizia and Gary Marshall report from Krościenko

Monday 28 February 2022

View from the border

Paul Caruana Galizia reports from Przemyśl

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

Thursday 10 February 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Expensive life

What just happened

Tuesday 1 February 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: On borrowed time

What just happened

Tuesday 25 January 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Afghanistan, 2022

What just happened

Tuesday 18 January 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Is it over?

What just happened

Tuesday 11 January 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Elgin Marbles

What just happened

Wednesday 5 January 2022
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Opportunity cost

What just happened

Thursday 16 December 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Nuclear Biscuit

What just happened

Tuesday 14 December 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Omicron goes global

What just happened

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

Thursday 9 December 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Plan B – boot Boris?

What just happened

Tuesday 7 December 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Dysfunction and chaos?

What just happened

Tuesday 30 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Maxwell trial

What just happened

Wednesday 24 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Great Migration

What just happened

Thursday 18 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Holy moly

What just happened

Tuesday 16 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: New lockdowns

What just happened

Thursday 11 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Trapped in Whitehall

What just happened

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

Tuesday 9 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Parliamentary sleaze

What just happened

Monday 8 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Get serious week

What just happened

Friday 5 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Covid in Europe

What just happened

Thursday 4 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: British corruption

What just happened

Wednesday 3 November 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Bosnia

What just happened

Thursday 28 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Interest and inflation

What just happened

Tuesday 26 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Got your back

What just happened

Thursday 21 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Sajid Javid Covid

What just happened

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.

Tuesday 19 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Great Resignation

What just happened

Thursday 14 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The protocol stand-off

What just happened

Tuesday 12 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Noble economics

What just happened

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

Thursday 7 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Party of power?

What just happened

Tuesday 5 October 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Facebook down

What just happened

Thursday 30 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Pfizer’s pandemic

What just happened

Tuesday 28 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Inflation

What just happened

Friday 24 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Johnson MIA

What just happened

Thursday 23 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Nevergrande

What just happened

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

Tuesday 21 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: America first, Haiti last

What just happened

Friday 17 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Shine a light

What just happened

Thursday 16 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Long Johnson

What just happened

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

Tuesday 14 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Taliban words and actions

What just happened

Thursday 9 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: El Salvador

What just happened

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?

Tuesday 7 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Perfect storm

What just happened

Friday 3 September 2021

The Arms Race

Introducing: #TheArmsRace Vaccine Tracker

Friday 3 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Back to school

What just happened

Wednesday 1 September 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Leaving Afghanistan

What just happened

Tuesday 31 August 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: A country without music

What just happened

Thursday 29 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Tunisian crisis

What just happened

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

Monday 26 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Vaccine stockpiling

What just happened

Thursday 22 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Pandemic of the unvaccinated

What just happened

Monday 19 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Freedom Day

What just happened

Tuesday 13 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The great Covid gamble

What just happened

Monday 12 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Troppo Bello

What just happened

Thursday 8 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Vaccinating America

What just happened

Tuesday 6 July 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Vaccine neighbourhoods

What just happened

Friday 25 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Shots fired

What just happened

Thursday 24 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Hong Kong crackdown

What just happened

Wednesday 23 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Google this

What just happened

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?

Monday 21 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Covid nations

What just happened

Friday 18 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Wealth tax

What just happened

Thursday 17 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Biden-Putin summit

What just happened

Wednesday 16 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Murder and institutional corruption

What just happened

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?

Monday 14 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The West vs Autocrats

What just happened

Wednesday 9 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: American myth

What just happened

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

Monday 7 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Historic tax deal

What just happened

Friday 4 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Britain’s big moment

What just happened

Thursday 3 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Capitol crimes

What just happened

Wednesday 2 June 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Three-child China

What just happened

Monday 24 May 2021
10 minute read

Off the deep end

What just happened

Thursday 20 May 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The great chip shortage

What just happened

Thursday 13 May 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Total global failure

What just happened

Thursday 6 May 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Another pandemic

What just happened

Friday 30 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: The Covid baby bust

What just happened

Monday 26 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: India burning

What just happened

Thursday 22 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Fossil fools

What just happened

Monday 19 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Boom time

What just happened

Thursday 1 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Crisis in Brazil

What just happened

Wednesday 31 March 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: An international beacon of racial equality

What just happened

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?

Thursday 4 February 2021

Corinna & the king

Secret stash

How much money does Juan Carlos have? We’ve tried our best to find out

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

Thursday 21 January 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: New US management

What just happened

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

Tuesday 6 October 2020
10 minute read

Test and trace

Testing is GREAT

What the data tells us about Covid-19 testing failings

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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

Tuesday 12 July 2022

Londongrad: The Johnson Affair

A former KGB officer, Britain’s foreign secretary – and a potential national security breach

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Monday 1 February 2021

The money hunt

They occupied a world of high-rolling hunting parties and complicated gifts – until it went seriously wrong.

Thursday 27 February 2020

The last domino

Within months of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, three hitmen were arrested for the crime. Then – nothing.

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?

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.

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.