INVESTIGATIONS Disease, Depravity & Depression
Donal MacIntyre exposes Oscar Pistorius’ nightmare behind bars. *** Last Christmas he was at home with family and friends, dating Reeva Steenkamp and basking in being a Paralympian who changed the...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Land Of The Rising Sin
We delve into the underbelly of the world’s most polite nation. Forget the British ‘Dirty Weekend’ the Japanese have every fetish under the Osaka sun catered for on their doorsteps at love hotels....
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Crisis In Syria
Hannah Lucinda Smith on the frontline of the battle for Kobani. *** PICTURES Alice Martins The tank round hit as the call to midday prayers drifted through the hazy afternoon sunshine, adding a...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Desolation Row
Angola Penitentiary is one of the world’s most brutal prisons. It is known as ‘the farm’ and 85 per cent of its lifer inmates will die or be executed there – and buried in its grounds. Loaded’s...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS At Home With Three Hitmen
Donal MacIntyre exposes the psychology of evil contract killers. He put his life on the line by interviewing a trio of hitmen – and two of them were gagging to kill him. *** Hitman 1 ‘The Joker’...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Give Us Shelter
Paranoid writer Tom Mitchelson bunkers down in a UK nuke haven. But he got blown out when he begged the owner to reserve him a permanent place in the event of armageddon. *** The End Is Nigh. (And...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Good Mormon?
The last head of their church said all writers should be drowned. So we sent agnostic scribe Tom Mitchelson to get to the bottom of what floats the boats of British mormons. And he had to get up far...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Preposterously Polite Perversions
From bars where strangers meet for sex to rubber-walled rooms where women queue to be tied up by their ‘rope masters’, it’s all on offer on Japan’s streets. We tour the bars, clubs and gutters in the...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS A Lost War On Opium
The battle to eradicate Afghanistan’s opium production. *** When British troops officially withdrew from Afghanistan, one big downer for some was that the fight to control the country’s opium...
View ArticleINVESTIGATIONS Come Gang With Me
Donal MacIntyre gets his teeth into how cannibalism has found its way into street wars. *** Child prostitution, assassinations and kidnapping – gang warfare is never for the faint-hearted. But the rap...
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