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Matt Kennard

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
Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial hub. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Conservatives give £100m aid to ‘reduce poverty’ in China, while increasing it in UK

January 27th, 2022

Tagged AidChina
US President Ronald Reagan makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, 9 June 1982. During this visit, Reagan outlined his vision for the National Endowment for Democracy. (Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

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January 17th, 2022

Tagged Mediaus
Pemex is Mexico’s state-owned oil company. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Britain’s £75 million aid project to open up Mexican oil to UK business

December 16th, 2021

Tagged AidMexico
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was funded by Le Cercle in 2019. (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

Secret ‘CIA-funded’ group linked to UK ministers

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December 9th, 2021

Tagged United States
Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett. (Photo: Peter Summers / Getty)

Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest

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December 2nd, 2021

Tagged Assange
Duckpool Bay, downstream from GCHQ’s Cornwall site. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Revealed: GCHQ leaked 10,000 litres of contaminated water into Cornwall stream

November 24th, 2021

Tagged GCHQ
Alan Duncan speaks at the UN in New York in 2010 (Photo: UK government)

Minister pushing Venezuela regime change discussed its oil with petrol company

November 16th, 2021

Tagged OilVenezuela
Blair visits Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, 2001. (Photo: Alistair Grant / AFP via Getty)

Revealed: Tony Blair’s extraordinary efforts to court Syria’s dictators

October 29th, 2021

Tagged Syria
Village airport: A cargo plane taxis down Warton’s runway, bound for Saudi Arabia (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)

New film exposes English village key to bombing Yemen

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October 15th, 2021

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen
Colombian police (Photo: Colombian National Police)

British diplomats seek to “improve perceptions” of UK in repressive Colombia

October 13th, 2021

Tagged Colombia
The Lord Mayor of London, William Russell, meets Kuwait’s then head of state, Emir Sabah al-Sabah, February 2020, during a visit to the Gulf dictatorship. (Photo: Lord Mayor / Twitter)

Revealed: The City of London’s secret foreign policy shielded from democratic oversight

October 5th, 2021

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UK defence secretary Ben Wallace and Saudi ambassador to the UK Khalid bin Bandar at the DSEI arms fair in London, 15 September 2021. (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)

“Nothing to hide here”: Inside the world’s largest arms fair in the heart of London

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September 17th, 2021

Tagged IsraelPakistanSaudi Arabia

Britain supported Pakistan as it helped the Taliban kill UK troops

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September 9th, 2021

Tagged AfghanistanPakistanterrorismUnited States

Revealed: UK military unit in Colombia ‘assisted’ police force that killed 63 protesters

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July 22nd, 2021

Tagged Colombia

Government approves ex-minister for oil company role after he lobbied two prime ministers for its CEO

July 13th, 2021

Tagged Libya

Revealed: Secretive British anti-crime agency spent millions training Colombia’s repressive police

June 11th, 2021

Tagged ColombiaPolice

Former British minister: ‘The Israelis think they control the Foreign Office. And they do!’

June 4th, 2021

Tagged Israel

Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are flouting environmental legislation

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June 1st, 2021

Tagged MI5MI6

Revealed: Third of cabinet, including Boris Johnson, has been funded by Israel or pro-Israel lobby groups

May 22nd, 2021

Tagged Israel

UK spends millions training security forces to control Palestinians in West Bank and Lebanon

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May 20th, 2021

Tagged IsraelJordanLebanonPalestine

Revealed: The UK’s largest intelligence agency is a significant emitter of greenhouse gases

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May 7th, 2021

Tagged GCHQ

Revealed: The UK government campaign to force Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy

April 28th, 2021

Tagged AssangeEcuador

Burma bloodbath is a lesson Britain must learn from

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April 14th, 2021

Tagged BurmaPolice

Revealed: UK ignored Chechnya war crimes to push BP’s oil interests as it worked to get Vladimir Putin elected in 2000

April 8th, 2021

Tagged BPRussiaUkraine