Despite concerns over coronavirus fake news emanating from the Kremlin, it has been British government ministers and senior scientists who have repeatedly downplayed the severity of Covid-19 in the country’s parliament and in the media.
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The UK will spend over £350bn on extravagant military projects while failing to ensure national health security
by MARK CURTIS | 25 March 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus, Nuclear
New analysis shows that Britain plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on expensive military projects while the UK’s under-funded public health system struggles to address pandemics such as Covid-19.
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.
Coronavirus exposes who Britain’s national security industry is designed to protect – not the public
by NAFEEZ AHMED | 21 March 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus
The British government has long been aware of the looming inevitability of an imminent pandemic flu crisis. Yet coronavirus starkly illustrates how outmoded and dangerous the UK establishment’s national security paradigm really is.
Britain is the WHO’s second biggest state funder – so why is Boris Johnson ignoring its coronavirus advice?
by PHIL MILLER | 21 March 2020
TAGGED: Aid, Coronavirus, DR Congo
The UK government, which has been widely criticised for its slow and inadequate response to the coronavirus crisis, has failed to heed five areas of advice from the World Health Organisation – despite being its second largest state funder.
UK could double supply of medical ventilators with money spent on foreign military bases
by PHIL MILLER | 19 March 2020
Britain’s hidden ‘information’ policy in the Middle East
by JOHN McEVOY | 17 March 2020
TAGGED: Bahrain, Declassified files, Egypt, Iran
British policy centred on maintaining internal ‘stability’ in the Gulf states and on retaining access to key resources upon which its global power relied.
Exclusive: British army earns money recruiting police for Singapore in ‘bizarre’ colonial-era scheme
by PHIL MILLER | 13 March 2020
TAGGED: Nepal, Singapore
How the UK press supports the British military and intelligence establishment
by MARK CURTIS | 11 March 2020
TAGGED: Egypt, Iran, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, Yemen
How the UK press is misinforming the public about Britain’s role in the world
by MARK CURTIS | 9 March 2020
TAGGED: Egypt, Israel, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
Britain’s national press consistently portrays Britain as a supporter of noble objectives such as human rights and democracy. The extraordinary extent to which the public is being misinformed about the UK’s foreign and military policies is revealed in new statistical research by Declassified UK.