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MATT KENNARD

Matt Kennard is chief investigator at Declassified UK. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Follow him on Twitter @kennardmatt

Minister ‘misled parliament’ on Foreign Office role in secret Assange operation

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December 2nd, 2022

Tagged Assange

Four British ministries refuse to say if they’ve discussed Assange with U.S.

November 30th, 2022

Tagged Assangeus

UK government deployed 15 staff on secret operation to seize Julian Assange

November 28th, 2022

Tagged AssangePolice

The secretive US embassy-backed group cultivating the British left

November 24th, 2022

Tagged CIAJeremy CorbynLabour Partyus

‘UK executive is wining and dining with people plotting the assassination of my husband’

November 10th, 2022

Tagged Assange

UK spent millions pushing Bolsonaro to privatise Brazil’s oil and gas

October 28th, 2022

Tagged AidBrazil

UK aid helps Egypt’s dictator privatise ‘protected sectors’ of economy

October 13th, 2022

Tagged AidEgypt
Former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa. (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)

Rafael Correa: ‘They have already destroyed Assange’

September 22nd, 2022

Tagged AssangeEcuadorRafael Correa
Prince Andrew with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Tatlidil Forum in Antalya, Turkey in March 2017. (Photo: Turkish Presidency)

The British cabal courting Turkey’s Erdogan regime

August 9th, 2022

Tagged Turkey

Liz Truss approved £289m of UK exports with potential military use to Russia before Ukraine invasion

July 28th, 2022

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Evo Morales: ‘We lament the English were celebrating the sight of dead people’

July 14th, 2022

Tagged BoliviaEvo Morales

Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on the establishment campaign to stop him becoming PM

June 22nd, 2022

Tagged AssangeIsraelSaudi ArabiaUnited States
Guillermo Carmona, Argentina’s minister for the Malvinas (Falklands), Antarctic and South Atlantic. (Photo: Matt Kennard/DCUK)

Argentine minister: ‘We can’t be sure there aren’t nuclear weapons in the Falklands’

May 26th, 2022

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands
Argentinian soldiers on parade for Independence Day celebrations, Buenos Aires, 9 July 2019. (Photo: Muhammed Emin Canik/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

UK trained Argentine soldiers after signing controversial Falklands oil deal

May 24th, 2022

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands
Entrance to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, the centre of the US Air Force’s presence in Britain. (Photo: Matt Kennard/DCUK)

US Air Force deployment in Britain is third largest in world

May 10th, 2022

Tagged NuclearUnited States
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 May 2018. (Photo: UK government)

Boris Johnson was ‘determined’ to ban fishing in South Atlantic after meeting Argentina’s president

May 5th, 2022

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands
Carlos Foradori, who as Argentina’s deputy foreign minister negotiated a landmark agreement with the UK in 2016. (Photo: Violaine Martin/WIPO)

Argentine minister ‘was pissed’ when he agreed controversial Falklands deal with UK

April 26th, 2022

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands
Priti Patel (R) meets Alejandro Mayorkas, US Secretary of Homeland Security, Washington DC, 17 November 2021. (Photo: Priti Patel / Twitter)

Priti Patel was part of CIA-linked lobby group with husband of Assange judge

March 29th, 2022

Tagged AssangeCIAus
Russian soldiers roll through the bombed city of Grozny after intense fighting in the Second Chechen War, 15 February 2000. (Photo: Antoine Gyori/Sygma via Getty Images)

When Tony Blair backed Putin’s brutal war

March 25th, 2022

Tagged Russia
Robert Dudley (left), then BP’s chief executive, meets with Vladimir Putin in 2011. (Photo: Kremlin)

Under Putin, MI6-linked BP extracted Russian oil worth £271 billion

March 17th, 2022

Tagged BPMI6Russia
Ukraine far-right groups with UK-made rocket launchers (Design: DCUK)

Ukraine neo-Nazis pictured with UK-made rocket launchers

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March 10th, 2022

Tagged Ukraine
Entrance to Northwood Headquarters in northwest London, the location of Nato’s Maritime Command. (Photo: Matt Kennard / DCUK)

Nato’s key role in the UK

March 8th, 2022

Tagged United States
British commanders (left) meet with senior officials from Ukraine’s National Guard in Kyiv, September 2021. (Photo: NGU)

UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked National Guard to ‘deepen military cooperation’

February 15th, 2022

Tagged Ukraine
Communication towers in Ukraine. Britain financed the installation of 16 radio transmitters in eastern Ukraine to broadcast to Russia-backed rebel regions. (Photo: Anton Petrus / Moment)

UK spends over £80m on media in 20 countries around Russia

February 8th, 2022

Tagged RussiaUkraine