Footballer, engineer, comedian, actor, singer, quizmaster and one of British television’s most dependable entertainers, Bradley Walsh has built an extraordinary career while maintaining the cheerful fiction that he is simply an ordinary bloke who somehow wandered into showbusiness. There is a particular expression Bradley Walsh has perfected on The Chase. Continue Reading
Stacey Dooley: From Luton to the Front Line, a Journalist for the Modern World
Fourteen years ago, Cicero’s noticed a young documentary-maker called Stacey Dooley. She was compassionate, curious and willing to go where comfortable television often feared to tread. Today, that early promise has developed into an extraordinary broadcasting career, and Dooley is steadily becoming one of the most familiar and distinctive journalists Continue Reading
From Fraud to Knife Crime: What Neighbourhood Police Are Doing
Visible policing, community intelligence and prevention remain at the heart of neighbourhood work While the flashing blue lights of emergency response policing inevitably attract attention, much of the everyday work of keeping communities safe takes place more quietly. Across Northamptonshire, neighbourhood police officers and Police Community Support Officers are carrying Continue Reading
China Capital: The Secret Files That Put the World’s Biggest Bank and London Under the Spotlight
Millions of confidential banking records examined by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists have opened an extraordinary window into the overseas operations of China’s largest bank. At the centre of the investigation is not Beijing, but London. By Ciceros.org | 21 September 2026 Behind the polished stone and glass of Continue Reading
Lucy Letby: New Evidence, Old Convictions and a Case That Refuses to Settle
Fresh disclosures have reopened questions surrounding one of the most disturbing criminal cases in modern Britain. Lucy Letby remains a convicted murderer, but evidence now entering the public domain is likely to intensify scrutiny of how those convictions were reached Few criminal cases in recent British history have carried the Continue Reading
John Zebedee: Public Service, Tragedy and the Punishment he Served
For years, John Zebedee was known throughout Britain’s housing and welfare world as an expert on one of the most complicated parts of the benefits system. Then, in 2011, his life was shattered by an act of terrible violence. His story is difficult to tell because it contains achievement, tragedy, Continue Reading
