UK officials continue to brazenly deliver their pompous speeches about the need to protect those very values to which the government itself poses the greatest challenge.
The report’s conclusions were based on interviews with mostly Western businesspeople and former and current U.K. government officials as well as a handful of “Russian dissidents.”
LONDON -- A neoconservative think tank based in the United Kingdom has released a report that sensationally claims that as many as half of all Russian immigrants in the country are informants for the Russian government.
Since rising to power in mid-2017, MBS has shown that, despite his best efforts to lay on the PR charm, he is hardly the reformer he has promoted himself to be. Indeed, he has strewn repression and brutality in his wake, domestically and outside Saudi borders.
LONDON -- Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s media regulator, ruled on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia had broken British broadcasting law by running television advertisements aimed at promoting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)
Memorandum for: The US Embassies of Ecuador and the United Kingdom, and the U.S. State Department
From: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Subject: Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange
For six years, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has been effectively imprisoned without charges at Ecuador’s London embassy. In that time, two international courts and dozens of respected legal and human rights organizations have decried actions of the UK, US and Swedish governments that confine the journalist in what now amounts to torturous
“[The U.K.] should be focusing on trying to stop this terrible conflict, not assisting the Saudi government. British companies should be very cautious indeed in what they are supporting. Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and getting worse by the day.” – Anna Macdonald, director of a global arms-control organization
LONDON -- A powerful U.K.-based consulting and accountancy firm is seeking to land a major contract to “modernize” Saudi Arabia’s military -- a military currently involved in waging a genocidal war against the people of Yemen and fomenting the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC),
If Trump’s aggressive style and populist impulses have encouraged his political soulmates abroad, they’ve also provoked a backlash in defense of democratic norms.
On the eve of his recent visit to the UK, Donald Trump described the country as being in “turmoil.” And at one end of the political spectrum there was turmoil aplenty, with
Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, the U.K. has been an instrumental part of the U.S.-led coalition active in Syria and has also been a major source of funding for armed Syrian opposition groups, having spent millions of pounds on financing such groups — often with terrorist affiliations — since 2012.
LONDON – The Global Network for Syria, which includes a bipartisan group of several British policymakers and former British ambassadors to Syria, has slammed the U.K. government’s current foreign policy on Syria,
