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Posted: 15th February 2022
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A remarkable number of people appointed to run vital Whitehall watchdogs have spent time in or around British intelligence and the secret state.
Can we trust figures like Sue Gray to referee the Tory government, when they have mysterious gaps on their CV or careers cloaked in secrecy?
Britain has quietly resumed arms exports to its NATO ally Turkey, whose brutal operation in Syria targets the UK’s key Kurdish allies fighting Islamic State (ISIS).
Turkish-backed militias are complicit in human rights abuses and include former members of ISIS
Diplomats must keep talking to defuse tensions with Russia and negotiate a new pan-European security deal, an international relations expert tells Declassified.
The British government is spending tens of millions on media projects in Eastern Europe which are often presented as fighting “Russian disinformation”, but which may involve the UK’s own information operations.
The US is quietly preparing to upgrade its presence in Britain in moves with huge implications for UK security and vulnerability in an international crisis.
A damning report on police collusion with murders in Northern Ireland has just been published.
Whitehall knew for decades that the UDA paramilitary group was carrying out wholesale murder – yet ministers long refused to ban it as a terrorist organisation and officials continued to meet its leaders.
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