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Historian/journalist on UK foreign policy. Editor . Books include Secret Affairs, Web of Deceit, Unpeople, The Great Deception.

Oxford, England
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    Mar 4

    Declassified UK - new investigative journalism on UK foreign, military and intelligence policies - launches today. Here’s our website, video, our staff, board and advisers, our supporters and how to contact us. Please follow us

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    5 hours ago

    Why are British politicians so scared of transparency? and I wrote about a real threat to our democracy - how government has drastically reduced transparency during the COVID-19 pandemic, from FOI to scientific advice

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Remember to - follow if you want to be informed, rather than disinformed, about the UK’s real role in the world.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    So the Al Qaeda-affiliated gunman who murdered 3 US sailors in Florida was an officer in the Saudi Air Force. Maybe he was trained in that role by the RAF/BAE Systems.

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    7 hours ago

    Weekend poll. Should the Labour Party publicly campaign for the UK government to stop the export of all UK military-related exports to Israel, stop the export of arms that might be used for internal repression or make no such public calls?

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  6. 19 hours ago

    "The biggest impediment to the fight against coronavirus remains Yemen's horrific conflict". Yes, that's the one is personally approving of as UK foreign minister. He's complicit in RAF/BAE facilitation of the Saudi war machine.

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  7. 20 hours ago

    By all means condemn China for repression, but it's genuinely funny seeing ministers/corporate journalists do this (a country they have no influence over) while supporting/ignoring often far worse repression in UK-allied states (countries they can influence). It's just propaganda

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  8. 21 hours ago

    Then how come you've never tweeted about the lack of freedom in the human rights abusing regimes of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt that you and your mates in government support?

    If you are not willing to speak up for freedom everywhere, you can't expect to enjoy freedom anywhere.
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    21 hours ago

    Julian Assange - Is This a Fair Trial? Join , and on Thursday 28 May. Register here for this onlive event which will be also live streamed on Declassified UK's Twitter, Facebook and YouTube

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    May 22

    REMINDER - " is no longer a serving prisoner but someone facing extradition. Why is he actually being held prisoner?" while "Government continues to evade a constructive dialogue w on ’s treatment of Assange"

    In the UK, prisoners serve 50% of their sentence if the sentence is under 12 months. Assange finished his 50-week sentence on 22 September 2019. His imprisonment in UK is now only on behalf of Trump administration's case which criminalizes journalism.
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    May 22

    Interesting final result of our poll - should progressive writers write in The Guardian and The New Statesman, or not?

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  12. May 22

    Yeah I may have a "no news" day as well and just read The Times.

    Having a “no news” day today. I find the pandemic endlessly fascinating - it’s the most complicated and interesting story of my journalistic life - but it sometimes threatens to do your head in. So today it’s ’s new book of essays for review.
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  13. May 22

    UK national press has used the term "SAS hero" over 380 times in last 5 years. This is part of the national myth. Read the investigation by into a decorated SAS veteran involved in various covert operations who profited from war crimes, in .

    An SAS veteran who served on UK covert operations and then sold his counter-insurgency skills to profit from massacres of civilians in Sri Lanka, has died before facing justice. Read 's attempt to hold him to account for war crimes.
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    May 21

    Billionaires own the media, and it’s destroying democracy

    Billionaires Control The Media
    Billionaires control the media, and it's undermining our democracy. The broadcast media amplify the right-wing print media meaning the political agenda is always set by, you guessed it, billionaires.
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    May 21

    If newspapers won’t publish their circulation figures then the BBC, a publicly funded organisation, shouldn’t review their front pages every morning and evening. It’s in the public interest to know the reach of these papers, otherwise paper reviews are just free advertising.

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    May 21

    Take our new poll: Do you think progressive writers should write in The Guardian and The New Statesman, or not?

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  17. May 21

    It's now 18 months since the Guardian puts this falsehood on its front page about J.Assange. Part of a campaign of demonisation. It's still there, no recriminations, no investigation by IPSO, no apology. The MSM is the true Fake News.

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  18. May 21

    Remember that court decision stopping the govt issuing new arms licences to Saudi Arabia? The govt is now "working to enable" the arms flow to continue as normal.

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  19. May 21

    After coronavirus, UK policy will continue to be about "opening up markets through free trade agreements". Something with a bit of a history. A process known in the ideological system as "promoting development".

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  20. May 21

    Foreign Office announces that everyone in the human rights abusing-regimes it is supporting has an equal right to be repressed.

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  21. May 21

    We're on the verge of Israel annexing the West Bank and UK/Israeli politicians are speaking of being "strong partners" and a "special relationship". If only the UK had a functioning news system, journalists might tell the public what is going on.

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