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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

Tagged IndiaIrelandMalaysiaMI5Sri Lanka

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

Tagged Oman

‘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

Tagged SAS

The UK military’s secrecy problem

26 March 2021

Tagged AfghanistanBooksIraq

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

Tagged Assange

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

25 July 2020

Tagged BAE SystemsGCHQMI5Saudi Arabia

Revealed: UK Home Office paid £80,000 to a lobby group which has funded Conservative MPs

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14 July 2020

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The Westminster model of democracy was already unwell – Coronavirus has further exposed its limits

15 May 2020

Tagged Coronavirus

The ‘English disease’: Whitehall’s addiction to official secrecy

5 March 2020

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Britain’s secret state and the need for whistle-blowing

5 March 2020

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