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Creeping authoritarianism – the next threat to our civil liberties

2 September 2022

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‘A possible coup’ against the Labour government?

19 July 2022

Tagged Declassified filesMI5

India’s last Viceroy and the £450,000 battle to read his diaries

12 July 2022

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Johnson’s Saudi WhatsApps to stay secret

13 May 2022

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace opens the army’s new East Africa HQ with his Kenyan counterpart. Files were destroyed in the move. (Photo: FCDO)

British army destroyed files in Kenya

21 April 2022

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Security forces patrol an English-speaking region of Cameroon (Photo: Marco Longari / AFP via Getty)

Why we refused to comply with the D-Notice committee

17 February 2022

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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

9 February 2022

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Venezuela’s capital Caracas (Photo: Stig Nygaard / CC 2.0)

Secretive UK team met in Venezuela to promote British energy interests

20 January 2022

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Salman Abedi holding heavy gun.

Manchester bombing: What are the security agencies hiding?

4 December 2021

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Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett. (Photo: Peter Summers / Getty)

Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest

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2 December 2021

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Northern Irish police fire plastic bullets during the Troubles (Photo: Gerry Penny / AFP via Getty)

Rewriting history: The UK government’s new plan

30 November 2021

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

‘Riddled with corruption’: GCHQ’s banned book

25 November 2021

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The Lord Mayor of London, William Russell, meets Kuwait’s then head of state, Emir Sabah al-Sabah, February 2020, during a visit to the Gulf dictatorship. (Photo: Lord Mayor / Twitter)

Revealed: The City of London’s secret foreign policy shielded from democratic oversight

5 October 2021

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Margaret Thatcher receives Prime Minister of Pakistan Zia Ul-Haq at 10 Downing Street in London on October 6, 1980, UK.

Margaret Thatcher’s support for Afghan jihadists covered up by UK censors

8 September 2021

Tagged Afghanistan

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

15 July 2021

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Foreign minister James Cleverly accused of breaking ministerial Code over arms to Israel

30 June 2021

Tagged Israel

Boris Johnson’s new ethics adviser made secret trips to Gulf dictatorship

11 May 2021

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‘Colonialism never ended’: The elite British cabal propping up a Gulf dictatorship

20 April 2021

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British SAS soldiers on patrol in World War 2. (Photo: Geoffrey Keating / British Army)

Secrecy: British special forces were more transparent during World War 2 than today, study finds

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2 April 2021

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The UK military’s secrecy problem

26 March 2021

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MI6 has a long history of being a law unto itself

13 November 2020

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Britain’s creeping cronyism

1 September 2020

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UK government refuses to release information about Assange judge who has 96% extradition record

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31 July 2020

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Thousands of historic British government files censored after ‘independent’ watchdog approves over 99% of secrecy requests

25 July 2020

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