Siobhan Kennedy
Co-op chief quits over Flowers allegations
Another day, another executive bites the dust at the Co-operative – this time the group’s chairman Len Wardle has stood down with immediate effect.
Search results for ‘war on drugs’
479 items found
-
Siobhan Kennedy
-
What’s gone wrong at the Co-op Bank? The key questions
The Co-op has a proud history, but after the resignation of its chairman, the Paul Flowers affair and the proposed financial rescue by US hedge funds, Channel 4 News looks at what the future holds.
-
The ‘Rob Ford show’: crack cocaine and honest politicians
Never has a city council meeting anywhere been followed with such intrigue. But this was one of the most compelling installments yet of the “Rob Ford show”, Inigo Gilmore reports.
-
Silk Road is back – and ready for business
Silk Road, the online drugs marketplace shut down by the FBI just one month ago, is relaunched. But after the arrests of previous users, can customers be convinced to log back on to the “dark web”?
-
In the rainforest with Brazil’s animal traffickers
Animal trafficking is big business. Every year thousands of Brazil’s animals begin their journey to the US and Europe from the city of Belem do Para. Warning: contains disturbing images.
-
Positively wild: Lou Reed and transgender visibility
Tributes have been stacking up since rock legend Lou Reed passed away, but little has been said about his contribution to perceptions of gay and transgender people – until now, writes Paris Lees.
-
Paul Mason
Lou Reed: lifelong rebel who made weird cool
Rock musician Lou Reed has died, aged 71. Our Culture and Digital Editor Paul Mason looks back at the moment the Velvet Underground frontman changed music.
-
Lou Reed: lifelong rebel who made weird cool
Rock musician Lou Reed has died, aged 71. Our Culture and Digital Editor Paul Mason looks back at the moment the Velvet Underground frontman changed music.
-
Cashing in on the closure of Silk Road
Crime chiefs hailed the FBI’s arrest of the man behind one of the biggest illegal drugs websites. But Channel 4 News reveals others have quickly filled the void caused by the closure of Silk Road.
-
Prepared for the worst: Greenpeace activists ‘knew risks’
As the head of Greenpeace offers to move to Russia to secure bail for 30 people charged with piracy, we look at how the organisation prepares activists for arrest, prison and potentially death.
-
Unsafe, violent and drug ridden: government’s ‘model’ prison
The UK’s largest and newest privately run jail, described by the justice secretary as a model for prisons, is condemned as unsafe, violent, with very poor offender management and health service.
-
Geoff White
A lesson from the Silk Road – nothing dies online
Looking at the path the FBI investigators took to snare the suspected cyber criminal behind the Silk Road drugs marketing website raises questions about our own privacy online.
-
Geoff White
End of the Silk Road?
The arrest of a man alleged is the owner of the giant online drugs marketplace Silk Road may be a massive victory for the FBI.
-
Nightclub drug tests: saving lives or quality control?
In Austria and some other European countries, testing services tell clubbers whether their drugs are cut with other substances. But are such checks any more than quality control for the drugs market?
-
Arthur’s day: is the hangover hitting already?
Raise a glass for Arthur’s day – or maybe not. A day set up by drinks giant Diageo to celebrate the wonders of Guinness is leaving a bitter taste as doctors warn of alcohol abuse dangers.
