Harold Wilson, one of Britain’s most left-wing prime ministers, was delighted by MI5’s surveillance of a seafarers’ strike in the 1960s.
Europe
Queen Elizabeth colluded in Russian spy cover-up
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 14 January 2025
TAGGED: Declassified Files, MI5, Russia
The late monarch knew about the treachery of her art curator Anthony Blunt a decade before he confessed to MI5, but did not sack him.
Good and bad war criminals
by MARK CURTIS | 23 December 2024
TAGGED: Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia
Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
UK links use of Storm Shadow missiles to nuclear arms
by MARK CURTIS | 11 December 2024
TAGGED: Nuclear, Russia, Ukraine
Putin’s dangerous nuclear weapons doctrine is being vilified by Britain’s media. Yet similar British and Nato policy is being ignored.
UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war
by MARK CURTIS | 20 November 2024
TAGGED: Ukraine
British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.
UK snubs Council of Europe over Assange inquiry
by MARK CURTIS | 25 October 2024
TAGGED: Assange
Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail.
Free speech threatened as journalists treated like terrorists
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 18 September 2024
TAGGED: Terrorism
‘Let’s just fight’: How Britain prefers war over peace in Ukraine
by MARK CURTIS | 9 September 2024
TAGGED: Russia, Ukraine
Tony Blair’s lawyer had ‘serious doubt’ over bombing Serb TV studio
by JOHN McEVOY | 15 August 2024
TAGGED: Kosovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Labour urged to restore funding for anti-Islamophobia charity
by PHIL MILLER | 8 August 2024
TAGGED: Bosnia