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When Bin Laden set up a base in London
Thirty years ago this month, Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden established an office in a house in Kilburn, west London. Seven years before 9/11, Bin Laden’s so-called Advice and Reformation Committee...
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RAF spy flights over Gaza risk complicity in Israeli torture
Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners should have serious consequences for UK intelligence cooperation with Tel Aviv, human rights groups have warned. It comes as Keir Starmer suspended some arms...
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‘Where is the justice?’, asks father of Manchester bombing victim
Two judges have rejected a legal claim by families of the victims of the 2017 Manchester bombing that MI5 could have prevented the killings. The justices at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT)...
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Blair wanted Assad to work with MI6 against Jolani
Senior MI6 officials wanted help from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to stop terrorists entering Iraq in 2004, it has emerged. US troops were coming under attack from foreign fighters with links to...
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Queen Elizabeth colluded in Russian spy cover-up
Queen Elizabeth II was aware of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring much earlier than previously thought but she kept it quiet along with the intelligence establishment, hitherto top secret files...
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Labour leader praised MI5 for spying on trade union
MI5 spies were regularly summoned to 10 Downing Street for clandestine meetings with Labour prime minister Harold Wilson to share material on striking seamen, hitherto top secret files from 1966...
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The Empire never died
There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire – the largest the world has ever known – was a good or bad thing. There’s another question though – did it really end? In some ways, obviously...
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How Britain’s colonial cover-ups continued in Northern Ireland
A distinctive and common feature of Britain’s wars of decolonisation was the lengths that the state went to protect its reputation. Research undertaken by the historian Caroline Elkins and journalist...
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Britain’s long history of spying on Iran
As bombs fell on Iran this week, the UK government claimed it had “not participated” in the military action led by Israel and the US. But British spy agencies have a long history of meddling in Iran,...
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In Gaza, survivors accuse Britain of complicity
The smell of blood and smoke still lingers in the memory of those who lived through the Nuseirat massacre in the heart of the Gaza Strip. One year has passed since the slaughter on 8 June 2024, when...
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