Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis.
The Empire Never Died
Tag: Chagos Islands
The Chagos Islands Were Never Britain’s to Give Away
Mark Curtis says Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain “giving up sovereignty” of illegally occupied land.
UK Covertly Plotted to Discredit John Pilger
In 1975, the Foreign Office’s secret Cold War propaganda unit, the Information Research Department, opened a file on the Australian journalist, John McEvoy reports.
Britain’s Occupied Territory
Richard Norton-Taylor flags the U.K.’s dispute with Mauritius over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, where the largest island hosts a major U.S. bomber base.
Stealing a Nation: Secret SAS Mission to Capture Mideast Oil Artery
British files seen by Declassified-UK reveal details of torture from 1970, when special forces invaded and annexed the Persian Gulf’s most important oil route, Phil Miller reports.