The UK Ministry of Defence is using the Covid-19 pandemic to reverse a long-term recruitment crisis, which has seen it miss its enlistment targets for the past six years, and to repair damage to its reputation from the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MATT KENNARD
Revealed: How Britain’s profiteering spymasters ignored the country’s biggest threats like coronavirus—and endangered the public
by MATT KENNARD | 7 May 2020
TAGGED: BP, Coronavirus, GCHQ, MI5, MI6
There is money and power in identifying Russia and cyber attacks as the key security threats facing Britain — but not in addressing the more important issues of pandemics and climate change. Former UK intelligence chiefs are personally profiting from the ‘revolving door’ between government and business, and the public is paying the price.
Despite lockdown, the UK military still flies, risking the spread of coronavirus
by MATT KENNARD | 2 April 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus, Cyprus
Since air travel was largely locked down to curb the spread of coronavirus, the UK military has airlifted personnel to at least six countries that have banned British travellers or flights — potentially moving thousands of troops.
At risk from coronavirus, Julian Assange is one of just two inmates in Belmarsh maximum-security prison held for skipping bail
by MATT KENNARD | 31 March 2020
TAGGED: Assange
Julian Assange is one of just two inmates at Belmarsh maximum security prison in London, which houses 797 prisoners, being held for violating bail conditions, it can be revealed.
British security services have ignored global health pandemics — the UK’s biggest threat
by MATT KENNARD | 24 March 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus, MI5, MI6
The risk of a global pandemic that could kill hundreds of thousands of British people has been raised by UK policy-making officials for more than 15 years without the UK’s security and intelligence agencies prioritising the threat, new analysis shows.
UK minister who approved Trump’s request to extradite Assange spoke at secretive US conferences with people calling for him to be “neutralized”
by MATT KENNARD | 22 February 2020
TAGGED: Assange
REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office
by MATT KENNARD | 21 February 2020
TAGGED: Assange
EXCLUSIVE: Britain uses vast swathes of one of the world’s most biodiverse countries for military training — and pays nothing
by MATT KENNARD | 4 February 2020
TAGGED: Belize
The British army is using one-sixth of Belize’s total landmass for jungle warfare training after gaining access to more than a dozen sites across the former UK colony in Central America, it can be revealed.
New Argentine government will step up demands to UK over Falklands, says top official
by MATT KENNARD | 31 January 2020
TAGGED: Argentina, Falklands
REVEALED: How Boris Johnson and three of his ministers are being courted by a US institute pushing for war with Iran
by MATT KENNARD | 13 January 2020
TAGGED: Iran