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.

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.
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.
by PHIL MILLER | 30 March 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
by PHIL MILLER | 19 March 2020
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.
by PHIL MILLER | 13 March 2020
TAGGED: Nepal, Singapore
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