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RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

Richard is a British editor, journalist and playwright, and the doyen of British national security reporting. He wrote for the Guardian on defence and security matters and was the newspaper’s security editor for three decades.
Liz Truss at the Lord Mayor’s Easter Banquet. (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

Dangerous ambiguity: UK policy towards Ukraine

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

April 29th, 2022

Tagged Russia Ukraine
Falkland Islanders walk past Argentine troops in Port Stanley, April 1982. (Photo: Rafael Wollmann / Getty)

Falklands: Should UK negotiate with or defy Argentina?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

April 4th, 2022

Tagged Argentina Falklands
Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast. (Photo: Charles McQuillan / Getty)

How MI5 is helping to cover up sexual abuse

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

March 31st, 2022

Tagged Ireland Police

Expanding Nato while welcoming oligarchs – how the UK misread Putin

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

March 15th, 2022

USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia. (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Britain’s occupied territory

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

March 1st, 2022

Tagged Chagos Islands Mauritius
A B-52 Stratofortress arrives at RAF Fairford in 2018. (Photo: USAF / Ted Daigle)

‘Deceitful activities’: US expands its intelligence and military presence in UK

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

February 9th, 2022

Tagged United States
Prince Andrew disembarks HMS Invincible with his parents after serving in the Falklands War. Nuclear weapons were stored onboard. (Photo: Anwar Hussein / Getty)

UK deployed 31 nuclear weapons during Falklands war

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

January 3rd, 2022

Tagged Argentina Falklands Nuclear
Salman Abedi holding heavy gun.

Manchester bombing: What are the security agencies hiding?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

December 4th, 2021

Tagged Libya Manchester Bombing
GCHQ’s site at Little Sai Wan appears in the distance (Photo: H. Grobe / CC 3.0)

‘Riddled with corruption’: GCHQ’s banned book

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

November 25th, 2021

Tagged Books China GCHQ Hong Kong
Congo’s prime minister Patrice Lumumba with UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1960. (Photo: Ben Martin / Getty)

Did Britain help murder an African leader and U.N. secretary general?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

October 26th, 2021

Tagged Books Congo Ghana
A soldier fits Western journalists with gas masks before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. More than 600 journalists were embedded in military units. (Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty)

How British journalists are seduced by the Ministry of Defence and spooks

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

September 28th, 2021

Tagged MI6

Britain in Afghanistan: Unprepared then, unprepared now

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

September 3rd, 2021

Tagged Afghanistan Books

What was Britain’s most senior police officer doing with MI6?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

July 8th, 2021

Tagged MI6 Police

Priti Patel’s new threat to British journalists

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

June 15th, 2021

Tagged Assange

Will UK security agencies learn lessons from their collusion in crimes in Northern Ireland?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

April 29th, 2021

Tagged Books Ireland MI5 Police terrorism

The UK military’s secrecy problem

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

March 26th, 2021

Tagged Afghanistan Books Iraq

Whitewashing Britain’s largest intelligence agency

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

February 10th, 2021

Tagged Books GCHQ

UK’s former Brexit secretary says Assange judge ‘got the law wrong’

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

January 22nd, 2021

Tagged Assange

Judge’s ruling in Julian Assange case could threaten investigative journalism in UK and around the world

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

January 8th, 2021

Tagged Assange

MI6 has a long history of being a law unto itself

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

November 13th, 2020

Tagged MI6

Alternatives: Britain’s unaccountable intelligence agencies could be held to account – here’s how

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

October 15th, 2020

Tagged GCHQ MI5 MI6

Britain’s creeping cronyism

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

September 1st, 2020

Ministry of Defence blacklists British journalists who report on UK military

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

August 27th, 2020

‘RAF’ Croughton: The ‘British’ base for American spies

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

July 29th, 2020

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