Homo Erectus
Features

Homo erectus: death of the killer ape

Reprint Nature’s prey The Sunday Times Magazine March 9 1997 New research into the origins of man suggests that fear, not aggression, was the driving force that ensured our survival. Study of past environments and […]

Henry Wellcome, founder of the Wellcome Trust
Investigations

Henry Wellcome: Thy will be done

In his will documents of 1932, the American-born pharmaceuticals pioneer Henry Wellcome devised an ingenious plan that was to give him more power over health and medicine after his death than would be possessed by […]

Kate Hoey MP
Features

Kate Hoey: member of parliament

Reprint Labour’s new model woman The Sunday Times Magazine August 8, 1993 Kate Hoey is the face of the new-look Labour party. Less right-on than right-wing, the MP for London’s Vauxhall, in the heart of […]

Investigations

Michael Briggs: birth pill fraud revealed

Reprint: The pill: professor’s safety tests were faked The Sunday Times, September 28 1986 By Brian Deer Social Affairs Correspondent RESEARCH into the long-term side effects of a new generation of contraceptive pills was fabricated […]