Craig Murray

Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail
The highly dubious death of Jeffrey Epstein in a US maximum security prison is another strong reason not to extradite Julian Assange into one –...

Epstein’s Death Must Be the Start, not the End, of the Investigation
There are a number of royal palaces and grand residences of former Presidents and Prime Ministers where the inhabitants have a little bit more...

The Unanswerable Case
Simon Jenkins gets it with this simple and unanswerable argument. Scots are now very significantly poorer than the Irish, the Norwegians, the...

40% of Scottish Labour Voters Support Independence
The headline from the major new Ashcroft poll of Scottish public opinion is that Independence now has 52-48 majority support, and that is excellent...

In the World of Truth and Fact, Russiagate is Dead. In the World of the Political Establishment, it is Still the New 42
Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. In the world of the political elite, the answer is...

Boris Johnson’s Fake Radicalism
We hear much about Johnson coming to power as an iconoclastic figure willing to cut a swathe through the ranks of the Establishment and especially...

The Removal of Humanity
Occasionally I post about my personal experience of butting up against the consequences of the removal of both common humanity and common sense...

Tanker Seizures and the Threat to the Global Economy from Resurgent Imperialism
The British seizure of the Iranian tanker off Gibraltar was illegal. There is no doubt of that whatsoever. The Iranian response to the seizure of...

Johnson’s Westminster Cabinet is Far to the Right of Thatcher
I can only imagine that the media people who are saying this is the most right wing cabinet since the 1980’s were not sentient in the 80’s....

The Darroch Affair
I am amused when I hear the resignation of Kim Darroch mooted as an attack on an apolitical civil service. Darroch’s rise to the top of the FCO...