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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

The British ambassador who supported a coup

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March 30th, 2021

Tagged Bolivia

Revealed: The UK supported the coup in Bolivia to gain access to its ‘white gold’

March 8th, 2021

Tagged Bolivia

Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme

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January 6th, 2021

Tagged Venezuela

Revealed: UK Foreign Office has spent nearly half a million pounds in aid setting up anti-government coalition in Venezuela

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October 21st, 2020

Tagged AidVenezuela

Revealed: Key Assange prosecution witness is part of academic cluster which has received millions of pounds from UK and US militaries

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October 2nd, 2020

Tagged Assange

As British judge made rulings against Julian Assange, her husband was involved with right-wing lobby group briefing against WikiLeaks founder

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September 3rd, 2020

Tagged Assange

UK government refuses to release information about Assange judge who has 96% extradition record

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July 31st, 2020

Tagged Assange

Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt

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July 27th, 2020

Tagged EgyptMI5MI6Saudi ArabiaUAE

The UK has approved over £200 million worth of exports with potential military use to Russia since the Salisbury poisonings

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July 23rd, 2020

Tagged RussiaUkraine

For Sama’a: As Britain resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a deadly airstrike in Yemen

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July 20th, 2020

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Revealed: UK Home Office paid £80,000 to a lobby group which has funded Conservative MPs

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July 14th, 2020

Tagged

REVEALED: Veterans of the UK military’s cyber warfare unit are teaching school children how to launch cyber attacks

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June 4th, 2020

Tagged GCHQ

REVEALED: Harry Potter, British spies, and the arms corporations penetrating UK schools

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June 3rd, 2020

Tagged GCHQ

REVEALED: The UK’s largest intelligence agency is infiltrating British schools

June 2nd, 2020

Tagged GCHQ

Exclusive: UK military and arms companies produce more carbon emissions than 60 individual countries

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May 19th, 2020

Tagged Environmentmilitary

The British Armed Forces are using Covid-19 to solve a recruitment crisis and to heal their damaged reputation

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May 13th, 2020

Tagged Coronavirus

Revealed: How Britain’s profiteering spymasters ignored the country’s biggest threats like coronavirus—and endangered the public

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May 7th, 2020

Tagged CoronavirusGCHQMI5MI6

Despite lockdown, the UK military still flies, risking the spread of coronavirus

April 2nd, 2020

Tagged CoronavirusCyprus

At risk from coronavirus, Julian Assange is one of just two inmates in Belmarsh maximum-security prison held for skipping bail

March 31st, 2020

Tagged Assange

British security services have ignored global health pandemics — the UK’s biggest threat

March 24th, 2020

Tagged CoronavirusMI5MI6

UK minister who approved Trump’s request to extradite Assange spoke at secretive US conferences with people calling for him to be “neutralized”

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February 22nd, 2020

Tagged Assange

REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office

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February 21st, 2020

Tagged Assange

EXCLUSIVE: Britain uses vast swathes of one of the world’s most biodiverse countries for military training — and pays nothing 

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February 4th, 2020

Tagged Belize
The Falkland Islands (Photo: John5199 / Wikimedia)

New Argentine government will step up demands to UK over Falklands, says top official

January 31st, 2020

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands