A selection of Brian Deer’s investigations
Reprint End game The Mail on Sunday, July 12 1998 Football star. Black hero. Gay icon. Justin Fashanu carried a lot of labels, and not just on his designer clothes. But after the impending inquest […]
Reprint: Germ Warfare The Sunday Times Magazine May 17 1998 By Brian Deer Matthew Bell lay on the sofa in the front room of his home and snuggled against a cushion half as big as […]
Reprint: The long shot The Sunday Times Magazine May 17 1998 Brian Deer Once a month, at around 3pm, Dr Donald Francis, president of the VaxGen corporation, boards a 747 at San Francisco airport for […]
Reprint Hang ’em high It is high noon for old Labour. Tony Blair has sent a posse to drive out its die-hard socialists, and this week the fate of leading party members is to be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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