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UK Police Chief Misleads MPs
An interesting article appeared in The Sunday Times today, stating that Britain’s top policeman, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair, had “unwittingly” misled the parliamentary...
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The (Il)legal Road to War
Yet another article has appeared about the mess that is the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Max Hastings, writing in the Daily Mail yesterday, described how our soldiers in Afghanistan feel that the...
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Save Our Free Speech
The Guardian today reported that the United Nations Committee on Human Rights had issued a damning indictment of the British government’s use of legislation to suppress a right that is fundamental to...
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Poor Bloody Infantry
There is an ongoing campaign to save Bletchley Park for the nation, in the teeth of government opposition. As historic British monuments go, the question of whether to preserve it for posterity should...
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Libya: my enemy’s enemy is my friend, until he becomes my enemy again…
UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, reportedly made the startling statement recently that the military intervention in Libya “unlike Iraq, is necessary, legal and right”. Would it not be wonderful if he...
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The Age of Transparency?
Well, this is an interesting case in the US. Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the American National Security Agency (NSA), the US electronic eavesdropping organisation, is being charged...
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Former head of MI6 says that fact and fiction get mixed up
Former head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett — he of the dodgy September Dossier fame that led inexorably to the UK’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the death, maiming, depleted-uranium poisoning and...
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Alastair Campbell — guilty of breaching the OSA?
I have long suspected that Alastair Campbell, Labour’s former Director of Communications, may potentially have broken the UK’s Official Secrets Act. Now prima facie evidence is beginning to emerge...
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Will MI6 “fix” intelligence on Iran?
By: Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and Annie Machon, former MI5 intelligence officer Recent remarks by the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, leave us wondering if the Secret Intelligence Service is...
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