Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
Intelligence
Police ‘overzealous’ in censoring MI5 report on Northern Ireland
Campaigners in Belfast have criticised police for not releasing a file from the Troubles after similar documents were discovered in Foreign Office archives.
How UK security agencies use telecoms firms to spy on us
British spies have required BT to give them access to public communications since 1985, declassified files show.
70 questions the UK government must answer about Gaza
‘Mainstream’ journalists have failed to investigate the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. Here is what every minister should be asked.
In Gaza, survivors accuse Britain of complicity
Eye witnesses to an Israeli massacre believe British intelligence contributed to the slaughter.
Britain’s long history of spying on Iran
The UK has spent decades trying to subvert Iran’s government, but also secretly sold them chemical weapons and spied on opposition activists.
How Britain’s colonial cover-ups continued in Northern Ireland
A new book, Decades of Deceit, pierces the veil of official secrecy around one of the darkest episodes of the Troubles.
The Empire never died
The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.
Labour leader praised MI5 for spying on trade union
Harold Wilson, one of Britain’s most left-wing prime ministers, was delighted by MI5’s surveillance of a seafarers’ strike in the 1960s.
Queen Elizabeth colluded in Russian spy cover-up
The late monarch knew about the treachery of her art curator Anthony Blunt a decade before he confessed to MI5, but did not sack him.