[ 11 September 2018 ] On 11 September 2018, Emily Thornberry, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, reminded parliament of British collusion with Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign against Yemen which, since it had started in 2015, had created what the United Nations described as ‘the world’s worst humitarian crisis.’ She added: ‘It seems as though no Saudi…
[ 1 October 2017 ] On 1 October 2017, Queen Elizabeth gifted a three year old prize stallion to Bahrain’s murderous tyrant, King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa. The horse was handed over in a formal ceremony by the British ambassador to Bahrain during a show from the Royal Stables.1 It was a clear and deliberate…
18 October 2012 During the autumn of 2012, the SAS conducted numerous armed raids against suspect Taliban members’ homes across the Afghan province of Helmand. Seven years later, the Sunday Times, reporting the suspected cover-up of a man and three boys who had been shot dead in their home, noted that individuals were often targeted ‘as a…
31 July 2018 On 31 July 2018, the Court of Appeal ruled that the British government had ‘materially misled’ the high court over how it had denied refugee children refused entrance into the UK their legal rights to know and challenge the reasons for their visa applications being turned down. The Judges added that the…
25 July 2018 Writing for The Spectator on 25 July 2018, the recently resigned Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, implied that the government would not hesitate in authorizing intelligence sharing to enable a drone strike assassination of targets suspected of terror crimes, even if they were not necessarily posing any imminent threat to life. Referring to Alexanda Kotey…
6 July 2018 On 6 July 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May slammed down Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson’s suggestion to give members of the IRA the same legal protection from prosecution that he proposed for members of the armed forces implicated in terror killings, intimidation, torture or other offences. Williamson had written secretly to the prime…
22 June 2018 An internal government memo dated 22 June 2018, leaked to The Daily Telegraph and marked ‘Official Sensitive,’ noted that UK ministers would not oppose the US government sending two British terror suspects, Alexanda Kotey and Shafee El-Sheikh, to Guantanamo, although at the same time acknowledging that ‘GTMO is seen by many as acting as…
14 June 2018 On 14 June 2018, in a closed session of the UN security council, the United Kingdom joined the United States and France in making it clear it would veto any attempt to halt the military assault on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, launched two days earlier by the United Arab Emirates and…
31 May 2019 On 31 May 1919, Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, accused Britain and the United States of subjecting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to ‘psychological torture’ over a prolonged period. He added that ‘It was obvious that Mr Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment…
20 April 2010 On 20 April 2010, a huge explosion at British Petroleum’s Deep Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico became the latest in a series of disasters due to the company’s reckless prioritisation of profits over safety. The blast, kindled by the escape of high pressure methane gas, ripped through the rig,…
