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Investigations

Contraceptive pill fraud followup

Selling the pill like soap The Sunday Times, May 17 1987 BRIAN DEER questions the campaign techniques of marketing a new contraceptive pill launched last week IN Chicago last autumn I had the good fortune […]

Stanley Royd Hospital
Social affairs

The Stanley Royd Hospital scandal

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]

Social affairs

Social affairs: a new beat in journalism

Reporting the Eighties Introducing social affairs In 1987, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher famously declared there is “no such thing as society”. But social affairs journalism was already up and running to report that decade of upheaval. […]

Social affairs

Soho peep show, 1985

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]

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Social affairs

A crisis after Christmas for the homeless

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]

Social affairs

Myra Hindley, moors murderer

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]

Social affairs

Clause 28, or Section 28, anti-gay law

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]

Social affairs

Heroin addiction and myths of drug misuse

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]