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Martin Williams

Martin Williams is a freelance investigative journalist and author. His first book, Parliament Ltd, exposes the private finances of British MPs and was published in May 2016. His website is here

February 2023

  • David Prior.

    Revealed: NHS England chair fixed meeting for client of bank he advised

    David Prior helped arrange a meeting between NHSX and the private care company Teladoc, said to be keen to expand in the UK

December 2021

  • Imperial College London had accepted £54m since 2017, openDemocracy’s study found.

    UK universities took £89m from oil firms in last four years

    Anger after investigation finds Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford among institutions to have accepted funding

May 2017

  • office at university

    University leadership
    I work in a university. Here's what I secretly want to tell senior management

    A range of university staff speak out about how their leaders take decisions and communicate with the campus

April 2017

  • Justine Greening arriving in Downing Street

    Social impact
    How can companies cut the UK's class pay gap?

  • Man filling in form

    Partnerships in practice
    An inspector calls: is it time for a rethink on Ofsted visits?

March 2017

  • staff wanted hand written sign in restaurant window in Belfast city centre

    Bullying at work week
    The bullying and fear at the heart of zero-hour contracts

  • Surgeons during an operation

    Partnerships in practice
    Why do clinicians and managers struggle to work together?

February 2017

  • Disabled People Against Cuts hold a day of action against Maximus in London 2015. Maximus are due to carry out assessments on sick and disabled people on their capabilities to work. Protestors are concerned that many claimants will be wrongly found fit for work and lose their benefits.

    Disability at work
    The truth behind rising disabled employment: cuts, death and zero-hour contracts

  • Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields

    Partnerships in practice
    Stepping into history: how I moved my class to a museum for a term

January 2017

  • David Cameron visiting one of the schools in the Perry Beeches chain in 2013.

    Partnerships in practice
    There's trouble with transparency in the UK's academies

  • ‘She doesn’t greet staff in the corridors unless they agree with everything she says.’

    Partnerships in practice
    What I secretly want to tell my headteacher

December 2016

  • children's hands holding tablets

    Partnerships in practice
    Teachers and tech: 'they're worlds apart - we can bring them together'

  • Leah Harvey graduated from drama school this year.

    Students in a postcolonial world
    Being a black drama student: 'The fear of stereotyping is crippling'

October 2016

  • The government has encouraged schools to compete against each other.

    Partnerships in practice
    Is competition between schools restricting collaboration?

  • ‘We keep on saying that we’ve got a problem. What are we doing about it?'

    Students in a postcolonial world
    Does your university produce racism?

September 2016

  • Oxford students campaign for the university to remove a statue of Victorian Colonialist Cecil Rhodes.

    Students in a postcolonial world
    How Britain's old empire lives on in universities

    From racist ‘banter’ to Eurocentric degrees, higher education is haunted by Britain’s colonial past. But what does it mean to students?

June 2016

  • Children playing hopscotch

    School governance
    Seven ways governors can get to know their school

    Board members can feel very removed from classroom life. Here’s how to get a strong insight into your school using everything from Twitter to learning walks
  • European flag with stars edited into the shape of a question mark to indicate a European question or debate.<br>FGBAHM European flag with stars edited into the shape of a question mark to indicate a European question or debate.

    EU referendum: are you in or out? Our readers discuss

    Join us at 12pm today to discuss where you stand and why. Follow the blog over the morning as we will update it with opinions from our journalists
  • Houses of parliament, Westminster

    Do MPs gain directly from the decisions they push through? We just don’t know

    Martin Williams
    British politics will never be cleaned up without transparency. The register of interests is based on trust, so we need to dig deeper to uncover their finances

May 2016

  • Undated handout photo from Heytesbury Bird Pavilions shows the 'Stockholm' duck house which Conservative opposition MP Sir Peter Viggers claimed as expenses, part of the ongoing revelations into MP's expenses in the Daily Telegraph newspaper on May 21, 2009. Viggers is to quit after claiming 1,600 pounds (2,500 dollars, 1,800 euros) for the "duck island," the latest embarrassing revelation in an expenses row, his party said today. AFP PHOTO/HEYTESBURY BIRD PAVILIONS (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    After the duck house … where MPs’ expenses went next

    Following the 2009 expenses scandal, parliament was told to clean up. But claims have risen by 43% since David Cameron took office. Martin Williams’s new book reveals how MPs are still splurging
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