The single-minded U.S. pursuit of Julian Assange as Britain proposes changes to its official secrets law shows the fierce determination of both governments to conceal their secrets, writes Alexander Mercouris.
Bob Gill describes how an admired public health service is secretly being changed to for-profit American-style “managed care.”
A deceitful prime minister is a price that a majority of British voters seem prepared to pay for one that represents their values, writes Johanna Ross.
Leakers and reporters could be sent to jail on a hypothesis, writes Richard Norton-Taylor.
With the great transparency advocate locked up in London, Tareq Haddad says the recent U.K.-U.S. affirmation of independent media stands hollow.
Matt Kennard reports on revelations of Israeli state influence on U.K. politics in Alan Duncan’s recently published diaries.
Israel uses Jews collectively as a political shield, exploiting sensitivities about the historical suffering of Jews at the hands of non-Jews to immunize itself from international opprobrium, writes Jonathan Cook.
Jonathan Cook condemns Keir Starmer’s failure to make it clear that Israel is committing war crimes for which there should be harsh consequences.
The AstraZeneca jab was actually developed by scientists from a publicly-funded institution, writes Nick Dearden in a retort to comments by Boris Johnson.
When inflation is taken into account, it represents a pay cut, Phil Miller reports. Meanwhile, Russia is 70 times the size and has more than twice as many inhabitants.