by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 24 September 2024 Whitehall officials and ministers connive with the BBC and the press during wars, to promote ‘propaganda’ to domestic and foreign audiences, declassified files show. Britain’s media is failing to report the true extent of UK support to Israel amid the genocide in Gaza. This is not the exception in […]
Topic: media
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 22 August 2024 Why would the Guardian employ a Tory prime minister’s spin doctor as its new communications chief? “Our quality, investigative journalism is a scrutinising force at a time when the rich and powerful are getting away with more and more”, says the Guardian in a fundraising plea to its readers. […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 8 March 2024 The UK’s leading liberal media outlet appears to act as a recruitment agency and public relations platform for Britain’s largest spy agency. Most of the articles the Guardian publishes about GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, are puff pieces, our research has found. We reviewed all the paper’s 59 […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 February 2024 When it comes to UK foreign policy, our governance system is really not democratic. Britain is run like an oligarchy – and it’s vital we recognise the UK needs a democratic revolution. A government led by a prime minister who hasn’t been elected in a popular vote […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 16 June 2023 Jonathan Swift, the High Court judge who has just rejected Julian Assange’s attempt to halt his extradition to the US, is the government’s former top lawyer and previously defended the Defence and Home Secretaries. Jonathan Swift, the High Court judge who has rejected Julian Assange’s appeal against […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 June 2023 The British press has quoted the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) hundreds of times in the past two years without informing readers it is funded by the UK military, US government and arms corporations, and that it’s a bastion of establishment interests. RUSI has been cited in […]
by John McEvoy and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 5 April 2023 Britain’s media routinely quote private groups countering Russian and other disinformation without saying they are funded by the UK government and directed by people linked to the UK or US foreign policy establishment. The UK government has poured over £25m into private “counter-disinformation” organisations since January […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 17 February 2022 A body run by the UK military has asked us to remove part of our story revealing British support for an African dictatorship. Here’s why we said no to its “formal advice” not to publish. Last week I received an email from a body called the DSMA committee asking Declassified to […]
by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 17 January 2022 A US government-funded agency that claims to promote democracy but which helps undermine governments independent of Washington has moved decisively into Britain’s media space since 2016. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has funded groups such as Bellingcat, Index on Censorship, Article 19, Finance Uncovered, […]
By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 2 December 2021 Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan – the former foreign minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in parliament. Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon […]