Declassified UK

Posted: 9th April 2026

Independent journalist Abby Martin has spent decades covering American wars of aggression, and has witnessed first hand how the corporate media ‘manufactures consent’ for these wars. The US-Israel assault on Iran is no different.

Speaking to Declassified editor Phil Miller, they discuss the dismal corporate media coverage in the UK and US, how no lessons have been learnt from the Gaza genocide, and why Keir Starmer can’t stand up to Donald Trump over Iran. 

Revealed: The internal police guidance on chanting ‘death to the IDF’

Police document says being an IDF soldier is not a protected characteristic, in part because many Britons serve for Israel. We’re publishing it here.

UK saw Israel as ‘chief problem’ to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions

Israel’s nuclear arms were seen by British officials as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from the 1990s show

Former senior UN official Craig Mokhiber spoke to Declassified about the role nuclear weapons has played in the US-Israel assault on Iran, and how the world’s bullies flout the international rules based order.

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Revealed: Man filmed in Al Jazeera ‘intimidation’ mob is Met police officer

A Metropolitan Police officer has been identified by Declassified as man who called Palestinian journalist a ‘dog’ and told him to ‘go back to Qatar’.

UK arms trade: A trifecta of everything that’s wrong

Declassified’s latest investigation into UK arms exports to Israel left me shaking my head and shouting at the screen. Here’s why.

Met Police officer exposed by Declassified has been suspended

Declassified identified Special Constable David Soffer as the man who called Palestinian journalist a ‘dog’ and told him to ‘go back to Qatar’.

Labour MP broke rules over undeclared Israel trip – again

Peter Prinsley admitted he didn’t declare trip to Israel in order to ‘avoid potential accusations of bias’

The UK minister responsible for arms exports to Israel didn’t answer our questions about Labour Friends of Israel, or give comment on whether he has broken ministerial code by not declaring that he is a member of the pro-Israel pressure group. 

Despite a partial arms embargo, the UK is still selling parts for F35 fighter jets to Israel, which it is using to bomb Iran.

‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’

The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor

Majority of Cypriots want British bases to go, new poll finds

Support for UK military bases on Cyprus has dropped 14 per cent in two years, after garrisons dragged island into Israel’s wars.

Starmer’s ‘defensive strikes’ on Iran are a ‘fiction’, air force veteran warns

The prime minister is ‘deeply wrong’ to let Trump bomb Iran from British soil, a former RAF officer has said.

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