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Australian naval commanders and assistant defence minister Andrew Hastie welcome a UK nuclear-powered submarine to Perth. (Photo: RAN / Richard Cordell)

Partners in crimes? The UK/Australia special relationship

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5 November 2021

Tagged AfghanistanAustraliaNuclearus
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?

26 October 2021

Tagged BooksCongoGhana
Former British army intelligence officer Colin Wallace (Photo: Michael Oswald / Independent POV)

FILM REVIEW: “The man who knew too much”

4 October 2021

Tagged Ireland
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

28 September 2021

Tagged MI6
Yunus Khales with President Ronald Reagan at the White House on 12 November 1987 (Photo: Dirck Halstead / Getty Images)

MI6 helped Bin Laden ally get medical treatment

20 September 2021

Tagged AfghanistanMI6Pakistan
British intelligence backed Afghan mujahideen from Jamiati Islami in the 1980s.

How MI6 backed ‘right-wing religious fanatics’ in Afghanistan

4 September 2021

Tagged AfghanistanMI6Pakistan
A British soldier grabs a civil rights protester on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 when 13 civilians were shot dead by paratroopers. (Photo: Getty Images)

Impunity for killings in service of the state: the UK government’s latest scheme

26 July 2021

Tagged Ireland

Why I took the police to court over a 48-year-old secret document

15 July 2021

Tagged IndiaIrelandMalaysiaMI5Sri Lanka

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

8 July 2021

Tagged MI6Police

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

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

29 April 2021

Tagged BooksIrelandMI5Policeterrorism

Britain’s secret political police

16 March 2021

Tagged Police

Whitewashing Britain’s largest intelligence agency

10 February 2021

Tagged BooksGCHQ
David Cameron walks with Libyan rebels upon his arrival at Benghazi Airport on 15 September 2011 (Photo: Stefan Rousseau / AFP via Getty)

Did the UK’s secret Libya policy contribute to the Manchester terror attack?

16 December 2020

Tagged LibyaManchester BombingMI6terrorism

Exclusive: Declassified UK blacklisted by GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency

1 December 2020

Tagged GCHQ

British spy agency refuses to acknowledge its bases in Gulf dictatorship

30 November 2020

Tagged GCHQOman

Revealed: MI6 ‘misled’ two inquiries into arrest of Lee Rigby’s killer

12 November 2020

Tagged KenyaMI6terrorism

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

15 October 2020

Tagged GCHQMI5MI6

The militarisation of US/Africa policy: How the CIA came to lead deadly counter-terrorism operations in Kenya

28 August 2020

Tagged Kenya

Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya

28 August 2020

Tagged KenyaMI6

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

29 July 2020

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

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27 July 2020

Tagged EgyptMI5MI6Saudi ArabiaUAE

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

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4 June 2020

Tagged GCHQ