Books
Britain’s sectarian army
‘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.
Did Britain help murder an African leader and U.N. secretary general?
Britain in Afghanistan: Unprepared then, unprepared now
Will UK security agencies learn lessons from their collusion in crimes in Northern Ireland?
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.
The UK military’s secrecy problem
A new book, revealing abuses by the British army in its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, illustrates how the Ministry of Defence and the military establishment try to censor, bully and threaten publishers and journalists, often successfully.
Whitewashing Britain’s largest intelligence agency
The new ‘authorised history’ of GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency, ignores or simply dismisses its most controversial activities as supposed scandals, giving a thoroughly one-sided account of the spy agency.