Secrecy
Rewriting history: The UK government’s new plan
‘Riddled with corruption’: GCHQ’s banned book
Thatcher’s government took frantic steps to ban a book alleging that GCHQ’s inefficiency and security negligence had cost British lives.
Revealed: The City of London’s secret foreign policy shielded from democratic oversight
Margaret Thatcher’s support for Afghan jihadists covered up by UK censors
Why I took the police to court over a 48-year-old secret document
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.
Foreign minister James Cleverly accused of breaking ministerial Code over arms to Israel
Britain’s Middle East minister James Cleverly is regularly refusing to provide answers to written questions posed to him by members of parliament, especially on UK arms exports to Israel, contravening House of Commons rules.
Boris Johnson’s new ethics adviser made secret trips to Gulf dictatorship
Lord Geidt, tasked with investigating government sleaze, did not tell parliament he was counselling an Arab autocrat. Whitehall insists he complied with transparency rules, but is this what the evidence suggests?
‘Colonialism never ended’: The elite British cabal propping up a Gulf dictatorship
Some of the most senior figures in the British establishment have secretly served as ‘privy councillors’ to a highly repressive dictatorship in the Gulf state of Oman. The elite UK group has included heads of MI6 and the military, a foreign minister, an oil executive, the ex-governor of the Bank of England and one of Queen Elizabeth’s closest aides.
Secrecy: British special forces were more transparent during World War 2 than today, study finds
The UK government refuses to provide information to Parliament about the role of the military’s special forces in overseas wars, routinely claiming this is a ‘long-standing policy’ – but new research finds this was invented in the late 1980s to deepen the culture of secrecy in Whitehall.