[…] who sympathise with Palestinians is but a small sideways step. National security droppings Immediately below, under subhead The secrets at the bus stop, I speculated that the MoD files that were dropped at a bus stop in Kent were ‘lost’ deliberately, that it was a psy-op. At the time we didn’t know who the […]
[PDF file]: […] existence across all government departments. These 101,283 files had been retained after a review under the Public Records Act; while, by contrast, the FCO Special Collections and MOD files had never been reviewed under the Act. In an account of the history of secrecy in Britain by David Vincent titled the The Culture of […]
[…] in a piece by erstwhile Guardian investigative journalist (and playwright) Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Military “lost or destroyed” whistleblower files’.9 Wallace is that whistleblower and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is reporting that Wallace’s service file went missing in 2023. That was the year Wallace began legal proceedings against the MOD and the two events may […]
[PDF file]: […] illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate in a US-led attack on Iran with ships, cruise missiles and access to British military bases such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.1 […]
[…] in a piece by erstwhile Guardian investigative journalist (and playwright) Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Military “lost or destroyed” whistleblower files’.9 Wallace is that whistleblower and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is reporting that Wallace’s service file went missing in 2023. That was the year Wallace began legal proceedings against the MOD and the two events may […]
[PDF file]: Document 1 Document 2 Document 3 Document 4 Document 5 Document 6 Document 7 MOD Docs – annotation added by the HIA Inquiry Document 8 Document 9 Document 10 Document 11 Document 12 Typed copy of original handwritten letter to The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon David Cameron Typed copy of original handwritten letter […]
[PDF file]: […] of The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain, the strongest criticisms are aimed at politicians and the bureaucratic mismanagement at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Journalistic responsibility gets off lightly. Strikingly, neither MI5, MI6 nor GCHQ are portrayed as bad in toto. Sometimes the leaders of the intelligence services get too […]
[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]
