by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 10 February 2025 Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain ‘giving up sovereignty’ of illegally occupied land. Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy will this week meet his new US counterpart, Marco Rubio, to rescue Labour’s plan for the joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. […]
Topic: DECLASSIFIED UK
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 January 2025 Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds. The BBC is failing to report the various ways in which the UK government has supported Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Declassified’s new analysis finds. Our […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 January 2025 Top British officers have made at least five unpublicised trips to Tel Aviv to meet Israeli officials, one to discuss ‘future operations’ in the Middle East. The most senior figures in the UK military made at least five unpublicised visits to Israel in the months after it […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 December 2024 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. Very little is known about Operation Tango, a secret SAS mission to capture suspected war criminals in Bosnia in 1997. It was […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 17 December 2024 The UK’s campaign to overthrow the Assad regime provides key background to understanding Whitehall’s approach to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Beginning in 2011, Britain embarked on a campaign to overthrow the Bashir al-Assad regime in Syria, in cooperation with its key allies the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and […]
By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 11 December 2024 Putin’s dangerous nuclear weapons doctrine is being vilified by Britain’s media. Yet similar British and Nato policy is being ignored. Last May, then defence secretary Grant Shapps gave a revealing but little-noticed speech at a military conference in London. Shapps deprecated people for saying “there’s no point in our […]
by John McEvoy and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 27 November 2024 Exclusive: Days after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, its top general flew to London. Israel’s top soldier, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, visited Britain earlier this week, the UK government has confirmed to Declassified. The visit came three days after the […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 25 November 2024 Could MI5 have prevented the murder of 22 people? The key evidence remains a state secret. Two judges have rejected a legal claim by families of the victims of the 2017 Manchester bombing that MI5 could have prevented the killings. The justices at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 November 2024 British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK. Amid the devastating war in Ukraine, British economic aid to the country is focused on promoting pro-private sector reforms and on pressing the government to open up […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 5 November 2024 UK soldiers are now equipped with a ‘cutting-edge weapons sight’ produced by an Israeli arms firm nurtured by its defence ministry. The British army’s main global response force is now equipped with new Israeli technology being used in Gaza. The Air Assault Brigade, based in Colchester, has […]