Story for Private Eye magazine about the Royal Navy’s new base in Oman. The MOD is refusing to say how much it will cost
Category Archives: Country
Sri Lanka’s police chief pulls out of controversial visit to Scotland
Story for Scotland on Sunday/Scotsman about Sri Lanka’s top cop pulling out of UK training trip
Corbyn foreign policy series
Bahrain lobby
Story for Private Eye magazine about Tory MPs lobbying for Bahrain monarchy after receiving hospitality.
Chained with British Steel
Front page story for the Morning Star about British handcuffs in Bahrain’s death row jail.
Revealed: Britain Spent Thousands Training a Bahraini ‘Monster’ Cop
Story for VICE
Whitehall blocks release of secrets
Story for The Times about Whitehall’s censorship of historical files to stop them reaching the National Archives (including one about a British army agent who killed Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane during the Troubles), and the ineffectiveness of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives which regulates the process.
Durham police toured Bahraini torture sites
Story for VICE
Thatcher’s Foreign Secretary wanted to ban protests that endangered arms deals
Story for VICE based on papers disclosed by the UK Cabinet Office after my Information Tribunal case. I was also interviewed on BBC Good Morning Scotland about investigation.
British spooks and Bahrain
Story for VICE about Britain’s increasingly secretive and spooky relationship with Bahrain.
Phil Miller 