Dr. Lashmar

paul-lashmar-investigative-journalistPaul Lashmar: Investigative Journalist, Television Producer, Broadcaster, Author, Research Academic and Senior Lecturer at the City, University of London.

Paul's Phd explores the links between the intelligence services and the media and is his core research interest.

Since joining the Observer in 1978 Paul Lashmar has covered many of the most important stories of our time:  Mark Thatcher and Equatorial Guinea Coup,  Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Royal Family avoiding income tax, MI5 vetting of BBC staff, Spycatcher, and the Stalker Affair.

Working for the Observer, Independent on Sunday and Guardian newspapers, as well as ITV’s hard-hitting documentary series World in Action, the BBC’s Timewatch and a string of other notable productions, Paul has certainly made his mark.  

Paul passionately believes in a strong press unafraid of challenging those in positions of power and is troubled by the steady decline in investigative journalism across the mainstream media. Despite this there are still some terrific stories out there and with over thirty years working alongside the best in the industry Paul has the contacts and the nous to sniff out the stories others often miss.

  • Gang cleaned out 268 Lloyds Bank "Safety" Deposit Boxes netting £8 million
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    Find out whether the Hatton Garden ringleader also masterminded the Lloyds Bank job 44 years ago.  Dr Lashmar reveals what happened in a two page spread in today's Independent Newspaper and online.... 

    "Reader’s gang cleaned out 268 safety deposit boxes at Lloyds Bank on 188 Baker Street in London in September 1971 and got away with more than £8m at 1971 values – a bigger take than the Great Train Robbery a few years before. But he was never arrested." Dr P Lashmar, Source: Independent

  • Britain's Biggest Bank Job | Was MI5 involved?
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    Dr. Paul Lashmar is lead interviewee in this fascinating Channel 5 documentary: Watch Now

  • Paris Attacks | French intelligence services scrutinised
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    “We have now become the Islamic State’s enemy number one,” Marc Trevidic, France’s outgoing examining magistrate in counter-terrorism cases, said shortly before the Paris attacks. “France is the principal target for an army of terrorists of unlimited means. Furthermore it’s also clear that we are particularly vulnerable because of our geographical position, for the ease of entrance on to our territory for jihadists of European origin.” Source:  and , The Guardian

  • Theresa May, surveillance and the threat to privacy
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    "Reading through the draft investigatory powers bill on Wednesday evening, one name came to mind, that of Frederick Douglass. He was an African American former slave who became one of the most eloquent campaigners for the abolition of slavery and was the living refutation of plantation owners’ contention that their “property” lacked the intelligence to function as independent citizens..." Source: John Naughton, The Guardian

  • Netanyahu teams up former military intelligence leaders
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    The Israeli leader [Benjamin Netanyahu] has spoken out repeatedly against attempts by the United States and other Western countries to improve relations with Iran. Source: Joseph Fitsanakis | intelNews.org

  • Throwing Police Power at Social Problems
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    "If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal." Chase Madar, explains why Americans should be frightened...
  • Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of 'Elite'
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    Pricewaterhouse Coopers, UBS, Credit Suisse and other Western banks and accounting firms played a key role as middlemen in helping Chinese clients set up trusts and companies in tax havens. Source: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
  • Police try to recruit Cambridge student to inform
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    'Officer is filmed attempting to persuade activist in his 20s to become informant targeting 'student-union type stuff.' Cambridgeshire police said:"Officers use covert tactics to gather intelligence, in accordance with the law, to assist in the prevention and detection of criminal activity." Source: Rob Evans and Mustafa Khalili, The Gurardian.

  • US universities facing a barrage of cyber attacks
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    "America’s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China..." Source: Richard Perez Pena, New York Times

  • NHS 'failing the deaf'
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    Non-existent support and medical care is damaging deaf children with additional needs futures

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