Home Secretary Theresa May In 2015 Home Secretary Theresa May deprived five people of their British citizenship on terror related grounds, according to new figures obtained by the Bureau. In total May has stripped 33 individuals of British nationality on these … Continued

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Victoria Parsons has been shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year in Britain’s premier celebration of health and medical journalism, the Medical Journalists’ Association awards. She made the 2016 shortlist for an investigation into the threat to … Continued

Home Secretary Theresa May A Nigerian closely connected to a notorious group of British Islamists has been stripped of his UK citizenship amid fears he would return to London to execute a Paris-style massacre, a court has heard. The man, … Continued

Lord O’Neill (pic: Getty) The danger to human health from the world’s antibiotic resistance crisis is “a much more troubling train wreck” than even the great financial crash of 2008, former Goldman Sachs chief and now UK minister Lord Jim … Continued

Home Secretary Theresa May. Photo credit: Twocoms/Shutterstock.com The Home Office today hit out at a court ruling that has blocked Britain from deporting six terror suspects to Algeria, saying it was “extremely disappointed” and that it would “continue to seek to … Continued

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission sits at Field House in London  Six men accused of having links to al Qaeda cannot be deported to Algeria because there is a “real risk” they would be tortured, UK judges ruled today in … Continued

World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva Not all antibiotics are equal. According to the World Health Organization, some classes of antibiotic are so medically important they’ve labelled them “critically important antibiotics”. If an antibiotic is critically important it means it’s … Continued

Ciprofloxacin tablets. Photo via Flickr Resistance to a key antibiotic used in the treatment of serious food poisoning cases has reached its highest level for a decade, new figures obtained by the Bureau suggest. Previously unpublished data collated by Public Health England … Continued

City investors issue antibiotics warning to high street pub and restaurant chains A group of powerful City investors who together control more than £700 billion have written to leading fast food, pub and restaurant chains urging them to take immediate … Continued

Antibiotic pills. Photo via Flickr The Bureau has launched a new investigation into drug resistance in the UK, with the first story, Banned in America, soaring use in Britain: The poultry farm drugs that put human lives at risk, published today in the … Continued

 Antibiotics are used on poultry farms to treat and prevent disease (Photo: Ecostorm) Campylobacter has plagued the poultry industry for years, with some studies revealing that as much as two-thirds of fresh retail chicken sold is contaminated with the bug. … Continued

Factory chickens. Photo credit: Viva! Fluoroquinolone antibiotics were developed in the 1970s and first used in human medicine in the 1980s. The drugs are used for treating, amongst other conditions, human food poisoning illnesses such as campylobacter, salmonella and Ecoli. Because … Continued

Factory farmed chickens are frequently dosed with antibiotics. Photo credit: Ecostorm/CIWF Antibiotics banned in US chicken farms a decade ago over links to the spread of potentially deadly bacteria in humans have been used in significantly increased quantities by Britain’s … Continued

Mahdi Hashi Former British citizen Mahdi Hashi was yesterday sentenced to nine years in prison at a New York court for supporting the terrorist organisation al Shabaab, three years after being secretly taken to the US from a Djibouti jail. Hashi, 26, … Continued

Home Secretary Theresa May’s decision to strip M2 of UK citizenship upheld by judges at SIAC A London minicab driver who arrived in Britain from Afghanistan as an unaccompanied minor 12 years ago is now highly likely to be an … Continued

Rizwan Sharif and Umar Farooq at Lahore airport after arriving in Pakistan in September 2009. Photo credit AP Britain’s security services provided Home Secretary Theresa May with “incomplete, inaccurate and misleading” intelligence as the basis for banning two al Qaeda … Continued

The latest appeal of six Algerian terror suspects fighting against Home Office deportation orders.

Counter terrorism officers pin Rizwan Sharif to the ground outside Liverpool John Moores University in 2009 Two Pakistani men alleged to have been part of an al Qaeda plot to blow up Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre six years ago have … Continued

As member states struggle to respond to the migration crisis, the Bureau investigates the EU’s external border agency

Home Secretary Theresa May (Photo: Tolga Akmen/Anadolu Agency/Getty) An Afghan granted British nationality just four years ago has been stripped of his citizenship by Theresa May over alleged links to al Qaeda, the Bureau has discovered. The man, known only in … Continued