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In 1985, when the miners strike began, while still at Greenwich, I went to work with Yorkshire NUM, advising the union and the pickets on their rights and on police strategy. When the strike ended I left Greenwich. Between 1985-86, I was employed by Manchester City Council to investigate the attacks by police officers on students in Manchester. Through the late  Eighties into the early Nineties,  I worked as an investigator for lawyers in criminal and civil cases and with many defendants in criminal and civil trials, with and without lawyers. In the late eighties, with others,  I founded Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA), an anti-racist group which worked on the defence of people assaulted, fitted up and wrongfully arrested by the police in north east London.

In 1990, I began investigating and writing about the ‘health fraud’ movement and vested interests in science and medicine. From the time of publishing Dirty Medicine in 1993, I have continued working in this area. I have written books since the early seventies, always trying to write about campaigns and issues in which I have been directly involved.