The death of an Iraqi civilian after British soldiers forced him to perform exercises in dangerously hot weather “is a stain on the reputation of the British army,” the UK’s former top army lawyer in Iraq said. Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Mercer made the comments after reviewing the findings...

More than 2,000 Britons served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) during the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The information was obtained by Declassified via a Freedom of Information request issued to the IDF by lawyer Elad Man from the NGO Hatzlacha . The data outlines the number...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to. Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our ...

Peter Mandelson claimed he conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged, Declassified has found. The disgraced Labour grandee said he raised questions with the Israeli government in t...

Hanan Abu Hadaid’s family was fast asleep in their tent when the attack began. “Suddenly, everything was turned upside down,” the 60-year-old told Declassified of the Israeli airstrike on 31 January that hit their shelter in al-Mawasi, an area in southern Gaza that the Israeli military has...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president for a visit was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters. ...

Keir Starmer’s reputation will “forever…be associated with the decision to appoint the best friend of the world’s most notorious paedophile” as British ambassador to Washington, the author of a book on the prime minister has said. Investigative journalist Paul Holden told Declassified that...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world. They’re openly targeting civilian populations with siege warfare in Iran and Cuba in full view of the entire world. They openly kid...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a tweet by Elon Musk the other day, “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about.” He put a sadface emoji at the end. I personally do not feel the slightest bit so...

A think tank with ties to the top of the Labour government paid a PR firm £30,000 to investigate journalists from media outlets including Declassified UK , it has emerged. Our chief reporter John McEvoy was among the journalists targeted by the group Labour Together in November 2023, acco...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly stated that the US deliberately caused a financial crisis in Iran with the goal of fomenting civil unrest ...

In October 2001, two years into his presidency, Hugo Chávez made a trip to London to meet with then UK prime minister Tony Blair and other high-level officials. Official records detail how the Venezuelan president’s proposed Hydrocarbons Law, a major restructuring of Venezuela’s oil industry...

One August night, Riyaadh Kadhim Alateya and his family’s lives changed forever.   The 54-year-old lived in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with his wife, Sabeeha Rasheed Mashi and his teenage son, Ali.  He ran a livestock trading business, and when he wasn’t working, his preferred w...

Subscribe now The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version . As with all my work, everything contained in this magazine is free to reuse, reproduce or republish in any way. There are, b...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you’ve ever met was pretty much right about everything. If you learn enough, stay humble enough, and pay close...

Six Palestine Action protesters have been found not guilty of aggravated burglary at an Elbit weapons site near Bristol. Zoe Rogers, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Jordan Devlin were also not convicted of any other charges by a jury at Woolwich Crown Co...

The Ministry of Defence is reportedly set to award a £2 billion contract to a consortium led by Raytheon UK despite major corruption and fraud violations recently levelled against its parent company in the US.  The contract, which aims to modernise the army’s training infrastructure using ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I need you to understand that nothing is going to be done about anything in the Epstein files. Nothing. The people in the documents will suffer no consequences. The institutions responsible for the abuses you’...

The US military owns 22 sites in Britain whose “replacement value” is $15.6bn (£11.4bn), according to a US War Department document found by Declassified UK . This number of sites is larger than previously believed and more than UK governments have told parliament. A US document pub...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a video of a food delivery robot navigating around the body of a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, and I can’t stop thinking about it. This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civiliz...