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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.

Red List: MI5’s Culture War

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

December 6th, 2022

Tagged MI5Police

Perverse priorities: Cut public spending, keep nuclear arms and warplanes

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

November 14th, 2022

Tagged Nuclear

The MOD’s £300bn waste of public money

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

October 20th, 2022

Tagged Nuclear

What is MI5 hiding in its secret 60 year-old files?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

October 11th, 2022

Tagged MI5Russia

Creeping authoritarianism – the next threat to our civil liberties

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

September 2nd, 2022

Tagged

‘A possible coup’ against the Labour government?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

July 19th, 2022

Tagged Declassified filesMI5

How the ‘permanent government’ turned on Boris Johnson

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

July 13th, 2022

Tagged

Britain’s bumbling foreign policy over Taiwan and Ukraine

MARK CURTIS and RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

June 8th, 2022

Tagged ChinaTaiwanUkraine

Priti Patel’s sweeping new threat to free expression

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

June 6th, 2022

Tagged
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 RussiaUkraine
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 ArgentinaFalklands
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 IrelandMI5Police

Expanding Nato while welcoming oligarchs – how the UK misread Putin

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

March 15th, 2022

Tagged
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 IslandsMauritius
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 ArgentinaFalklandsNuclear
Salman Abedi holding heavy gun.

Manchester bombing: What are the security agencies hiding?

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

December 4th, 2021

Tagged LibyaManchester 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 BooksChinaGCHQHong 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 BooksCongoGhana
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 AfghanistanBooks

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

RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR

July 8th, 2021

Tagged MI6Police

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 BooksIrelandMI5Policeterrorism
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