A lawyer for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has called on Britain’s Africa minister James Duddridge to step aside, saying he is ‘caught up in a revolving door’ over his business links to the Museveni regime, which were first exposed by Declassified.
Seven members of Britain’s armed forces won an award for their ‘vital operational’ work supporting the US military after it killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike last year, Declassified has found.
A shocking story of how a special squad of Britain’s Metropolitan Police, in collusion with MI5 – the domestic ‘security’ service – secretly infiltrated hundreds of UK political and campaign groups, and the question of whether the spying continues. As told by Asa Winstanley, who has personal experience.
The British embassy in Bolivia has publicly accused Declassified UK of running a “campaign of disinformation” over an article it published showing UK support for a coup in the South American country. Declassified has written to the UK Foreign Office demanding the embassy retract and apologise for its serious, false allegation.
More than half of the countries in the world rated as ‘not free’ are ruled by regimes that the British government supports.
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.
The Queen of England’s friend, Sheikh Mohammed — the repressive, billionaire ruler of Dubai who is holding his daughters, Latifa and Shamsa, hostage — has been allowed by the UK authorities to become the kingpin of Britain’s massive, world-renowned horse racing industry. For how much longer can that industry remain silent on its benefactor’s crimes?
After a coup in the South American country of Bolivia in November 2019, democratically elected president Evo Morales was forced to flee. Foreign Office documents obtained by Declassified show Britain saw the new military-backed regime, which killed 18 protesters, as an opportunity to open up Bolivia’s lithium deposits to UK firms.
The CIA believes Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman, or ‘MBS’, orchestrated the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. What can Britain, which routinely condemns human rights abuses by enemies, do to stop one of its closest allies?
Britain’s top military officer in the Middle East said leaders of a Gulf state are offering their young people a ‘hugely exciting future’ – days after the country’s unelected prime minister was accused of holding his daughters hostage, Declassified has found.