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Ashes of empire: Britain’s burning injustice in Kenya

19 January 2023

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Recommendation X: Shell’s secret plan for a Cold War propaganda unit

8 September 2022

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Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine

31 August 2022

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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

17 March 2022

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A submarine launch at Barrow-in-Furness (Photo: BAE / MOD handout)

Radiation pills distributed in nuclear submarine ports

18 January 2022

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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

16 December 2021

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

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

24 November 2021

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Ben Wallace (red tie) visits HMS Queen Elizabeth in Oman (Photo: Unaisi Luke / MOD)

Ministers mislead parliament over aircraft carrier maiden mission

9 November 2021

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HMS Queen Elizabeth with her escort and supply ships (Photo: USMC / Unaisi Luke)

Royal Navy’s gunboat diplomacy is fueling climate crisis

4 November 2021

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Boris Johnson greets Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the COP26 summit (Photo: UN)

Greenwashing genocide? The UK welcomes Sri Lanka’s notorious president

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3 November 2021

Tagged Sri Lanka
COP 26 president Alok Sharma MP opens the climate summit in Glasgow (Photo: UN)

Britain courts fossil fuel lobbying governments to increase oil and gas production

2 November 2021

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Colombian police (Photo: Colombian National Police)

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

13 October 2021

Tagged Colombia
Vladimir Putin visits a Russian military base in the Arctic (Photo: Kremlin)

UK military plan to counter Russian “threat” in Arctic is three years late

8 October 2021

Tagged Russia
British troops sparked a major fire in Kenya on 23 March 2021 (Photo: MOD)

British army ignored five fires before sparking Kenya inferno

24 September 2021

Tagged Kenya

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

13 July 2021

Tagged Libya

The UK’s new nuclear strategy is illegal and dangerous to the world

9 June 2021

Tagged Nuclear

Aircraft carrier base threatens endangered whales

3 June 2021

Tagged Oman

Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are flouting environmental legislation

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1 June 2021

Tagged MI5MI6

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

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7 May 2021

Tagged GCHQ

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

8 April 2021

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The British ambassador who supported a coup

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30 March 2021

Tagged Bolivia

The final frontier: Could Britain’s new spaceports embroil the UK in future star wars?

24 March 2021

Tagged Lockheed MartinSpace

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

8 March 2021

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Whitehall does little to stop the revolving door between politics and fossil fuel firms (Photo: Can Pac Swire / Flickr / CC)

Revealed: Dozens of UK former senior officials profit from fossil fuel corporations, rubber-stamped by Whitehall committee

4 February 2021

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