RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR
‘Riddled with corruption’: GCHQ’s banned book
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 25 November 2021
TAGGED: Books, China, GCHQ, Hong Kong
Thatcher’s government took frantic steps to ban a book alleging that GCHQ’s inefficiency and security negligence had cost British lives.
Did Britain help murder an African leader and U.N. secretary general?
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 26 October 2021
TAGGED: Books, DR Congo, Ghana
How British journalists are seduced by the Ministry of Defence and spooks
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 28 September 2021
TAGGED: MI6
Britain in Afghanistan: Unprepared then, unprepared now
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 3 September 2021
TAGGED: Afghanistan, Books
What was Britain’s most senior police officer doing with MI6?
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 8 July 2021
TAGGED: MI6, Police
During her career, Cressida Dick, Britain’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has repeatedly escaped full accountability over her role in controversial cases. One murky episode is her time in the ‘Foreign Office’, understood to really mean MI6.
Priti Patel’s new threat to British journalists
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 15 June 2021
TAGGED: Assange
UK government’s little-known proposed reforms to Britain’s Official Secrets Acts pose far-reaching threats to the media and the public’s right to know. They could land journalists and others in jail for 14 years for publishing information the government claims damages national security.
Will UK security agencies learn lessons from their collusion in crimes in Northern Ireland?
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 29 April 2021
TAGGED: Books, Ireland, MI5, Police, Terrorism
On the centenary of Ireland’s partition, Northern Ireland is changing. But the lessons from its recent violent ‘dirty war’, in which British agents colluded in killings, risk being ignored by the current British government.
The UK military’s secrecy problem
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 26 March 2021
TAGGED: Afghanistan, Books, Iraq
A new book, revealing abuses by the British army in its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, illustrates how the Ministry of Defence and the military establishment try to censor, bully and threaten publishers and journalists, often successfully.
Whitewashing Britain’s largest intelligence agency
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 10 February 2021
TAGGED: Books, GCHQ
The new ‘authorised history’ of GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency, ignores or simply dismisses its most controversial activities as supposed scandals, giving a thoroughly one-sided account of the spy agency.