
Europe


Why I took the police to court over a 48-year-old secret document
by PHIL MILLER | 15 July 2021
TAGGED: India, Ireland, Malaysia, MI5, Sri Lanka
Declassified UK’s chief reporter enters the Kafkaesque world of official secrecy as he tries to uncover the British state’s involvement in a notorious terrorist bombing for which no one has been held to account.

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.

‘The tail wagging the dog’: How Scottish independence could transform British foreign policy
by PHIL MILLER | 5 May 2021
TAGGED: Nuclear, Scotland
With pro-independence parties poised to secure a significant majority at the Scottish parliament elections, Declassified explores how Scotland could soon forge a radically different foreign policy from the rest of the UK. We asked Scottish politicians, campaigners and thinkers for their views on nuclear weapons, Russia, China, the arms trade and human rights.

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.

Revealed: UK ignored Chechnya war crimes to push BP’s oil interests as it worked to get Vladimir Putin elected in 2000
by MATT KENNARD | 8 April 2021
TAGGED: BP, Russia, Ukraine
The British government sought, in 2000, to integrate Putin’s Russia into the Western-ruled economic system, despite its brutal military campaign in Chechnya, documents obtained by Declassified show.

Britain overtakes Russian military spending — but only offers nurses 1% pay rise
by PHIL MILLER | 10 March 2021
TAGGED: Russia
Britain’s government is offering healthcare workers a 1% pay rise, which is likely to amount to a pay cut after inflation, at the same time as its military spending has just overtaken Russia to become the world’s fourth-largest defence budget.

Detectives ‘not interested’ in probing army commanders about Northern Ireland murders, says veteran
by PHIL MILLER | 18 December 2020
TAGGED: Ireland, Police, Terrorism
A multimillion-pound police probe into murders allegedly committed by a British army agent inside the IRA in Northern Ireland is reluctant to question senior UK commanders in charge of the covert mission, a retired intelligence officer has told Declassified.

Belarus military has received assistance from the UK a dozen times in past five years
by PHIL MILLER | 20 August 2020
TAGGED: Belarus, Ukraine
The UK military has been quietly building links with the Belarusian armed forces, including providing urban warfare training, despite the British government’s public criticism of Europe’s last dictator, Declassified UK has found.

The UK has approved over £200 million worth of exports with potential military use to Russia since the Salisbury poisonings
by MATT KENNARD | 23 July 2020
TAGGED: Russia, Ukraine
In the two years since a British citizen died following a chemical attack by Russian military intelligence officers in southern England, the UK government has licenced £232-million worth of controlled equipment to Russia, Declassified UK has found.