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James Cleverly: The UK’s dictatorships man

16 May 2023

Tagged BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitQatarSaudi ArabiaUAE

Dishonest diplomacy: Foreign Office duplicity on Israel and human rights must end

27 April 2023

Tagged BurmaIsrael

‘Stain on this country’: King Charles condemned for 120 meetings with Arab autocracies

26 April 2023

Tagged BahrainJordan

How Tony Blair sealed UK relations with Egypt’s dictatorship

20 April 2023

Tagged Declassified filesEgypt

Revealed: Britain secretly believes Israel has nuclear weapons, but won’t admit it

19 April 2023

Tagged IsraelNuclear

Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show

17 April 2023

Tagged Declassified filesIraqus

BP extracted Iraqi oil worth £15bn after British invasion

22 March 2023

Tagged BPIraq

Revealed: British mercenary tortured Arab prisoner

16 February 2023

Tagged CyprusOman

Britain’s 42 coups since 1945

12 January 2023

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The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945

10 January 2023

Tagged AfghanistanAlbaniaAnguillaBahamasBelizeBorneoChagos IslandsCyprusEgyptEritreaGreeceGuyanaIcelandIranIraqIsraelLibyaMaldivesNorth KoreaNorthern IrelandPalestineSierra LeoneSomaliaSouth KoreaSwazilandTajikistanTanzaniaThe GambiaUkraineUzbekistanVietnamZanzibar

UK loaned military adviser to British UN envoy in Yemen

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6 January 2023

Tagged Yemen

Former UN envoy to Yemen linked to MI6, a party to the war

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5 January 2023

Tagged Yemen

When Britain backed Iran’s dictator

8 November 2022

Tagged Declassified filesIran
Oman’s Sultan returns from a two week “private visit” to the UK in August. (Photo: Handout)

Gulf dictatorship’s £80m UK property network revealed

27 October 2022

Tagged Oman

Sultan’s Surrey mansion revealed in new film

26 October 2022

Tagged Oman

UK aid helps Egypt’s dictator privatise ‘protected sectors’ of economy

13 October 2022

Tagged AidBPEgypt

Foreign Office scholarship scheme accused of discrimination

12 October 2022

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Britain’s covert war in Yemen

5 October 2022

Tagged Declassified filesEgyptSaudi ArabiaYemen
Turkish proxy forces fire at Kurdish positions in Syria in February 2022. (Photo: Hisam Hac Omer / Anadolu Agency via Getty)

For Turkey, the Ukraine crisis means open season on the Kurds

15 June 2022

Tagged SyriaTurkey
Maud Quinault with her son Fahad-Louis. (Photo: Supplied)

‘Britain rules Oman’, says regime insider who wants her son back

14 June 2022

Tagged Oman

‘Save him’: Aunt of Briton in Egypt jail says UK must do more

31 May 2022

Tagged Egypt

It’s not just Putin – UK ministers are also complicit in war crimes, in Yemen

30 May 2022

Tagged Saudi ArabiaYemen

Johnson’s Saudi WhatsApps to stay secret

13 May 2022

Tagged Saudi Arabia
Max Verstappen tests his new Red Bull car in Bahrain. (Photo: Lars Baron / Getty)

Formula One’s hypocrisy problem

18 March 2022

Tagged BahrainSaudi ArabiaSportUAEYemen