David Pallister is an award-winning investigative journalist. He worked for 35 years on The Guardian newspaper, covering stories at home and abroad. He was the lead writer of a book investigating the Oppenheimer gold and diamond empires, South Africa Inc. He co-authored The Liar, an account of the fall of the British minister Jonathan Aitken. He won two team British press awards for his work on the Aitken case and the Neil Hamilton “cash for questions” affair.