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Matt Kennard

Matt Kennard is a Bertha fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He was previously a reporter for the Financial Times and is the author of two books, Irregular Army and The Racket, which was released in 2015

January 2017

  • The Old Wye Bridge over the river Wye with Hereford Cathedral

    Guns for hire in Hereford: inside England's unlikely global security hub

    With the SAS based nearby, this picturesque city has a long military history. Now Hereford is formalising its place as a major centre for a controversial industry which has boomed during the ‘war on terror’

November 2016

  • Gavin MacFadyen

    Gavin MacFadyen obituary

    Founder-director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, who spent his life trying to give a voice to the voiceless

October 2016

  • World Bank tribunal dismisses mining firm's $250m claim against El Salvador

    OceanaGold ordered to pay $8m legal costs after claim that El Salvador’s refusal to let it mine gold caused huge loss in potential profits is thrown out

April 2016

  • Aerial shot at Shannon Airport 1959

    The story of cities
    Story of cities #25: Shannon – a tiny Irish town inspires China’s economic boom

    Created in 1959 to lure foreign investors with tax breaks, the Shannon Free Zone proved revolutionary across the world. But in today’s world of looser trade and tax havens, Ireland’s innovators face an uphill battle to stay relevant

March 2016

  • The Tata Mundra power plant in Gujarat

    World Bank lending arm sees off lawsuit by Indian fishermen

  • Worker at wool-cleaner plant, Buenos Aires.

    Resilient cities
    Occupy Buenos Aires: the workers' movement that transformed a city, and inspired the world

January 2016

  • Residential properties stand on a tree lined road in Ciputra International City Tay Ho Vietnam. The United Nations International School, and the future American Embassy are just two of the high profile residents in this ambiguous housing development to the north of Hanoi. Thursday 14 December 2006.Photographer Paul Haigh/Bloomberg News

    Inside Hanoi's gated communities: elite enclaves where even the air is cleaner

    The rapid growth of Vietnam’s super-rich means multi-billion dollar developments are rising across this ancient city, separating the wealthy with walls and 24-hour private security from street hawkers, congestion and pollution

November 2015

  • Lavasa

    Inside Lavasa, India's first entirely private city built from scratch

  • head of the village (one of the plaintiffs) and the head of the fisherman's union in the front of Tata Mundra plant

    Fishermen and farmers sue World Bank lending arm over power plant in India

July 2015

  • White Hen

    Ukraine agribusiness firms in 'quiet land grab' with development finance

  • A branch of Lidl in Prague

    Lidl has received almost $1bn in public development funding

June 2015

  • race

    White supremacists want a race war. They must not fight America's wars

    Matt Kennard
  • Giacomo Gambineri

    The long read
    The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries

March 2015

  • A 14-lane highway in the centre of Naypyidaw, the capital of Burma.

    Burma's bizarre capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse suburbia

    The purpose-built city of Naypyidaw – unveiled a decade ago this year – boasts 20-lane highways, golf courses, fast Wi-Fi and reliable electricity. The only thing it doesn’t seem to have is people, report Matt Kennard and Claire Provost

November 2014

  • Campaigners in Hamburg urging members of the public to vote in favour of the referendum to renationalise the utility sector, which they won in October 2013.

    Hamburg at forefront of global drive to reverse privatisation of city services

  • El Salvador water

    Water everywhere for profit in Nejapa, but few drops for local people to drink

July 2014

  • Farmers plant potatoes in Villapinzon, in central Colombia

    UK investment treaty with Colombia 'threatens fragile peace process'

    Human rights groups say agreement to protect British investors empowers multinational firms and endangers land reform

September 2013

  • Washington navy yard shooting

    How the 'war on terror' came home

    Matt Kennard

    Matt Kennard: The story of Aaron Alexis is still obscure. But effects of an over-taxed US military are painfully visible among 2 million veterans

August 2012

  • US military: unfit for service?

    The modern US army: unfit for service?

    Gone are the days of the all-American army hero, says Matt Kennard. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit

March 2012

  • Supporters of the Islamist Ennahda movement celebrate outside Ennahda's headquarters in Tunis

    Neoliberals, not Islamists, are the real threat to Tunisia

    Matt Kennard
    Matt Kennard: With Tunisia's economy in crisis, the Islamist party Ennahda should look beyond US and Bretton Woods principles to save it
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