Iain Overton

By Sacha Bergsma on Introduction The UK has a history of leasing military bases to the US Air Force.

AOAV will host an online event to launch a report exposing the Ministry of Defence’s failure to recognise and support veterans affected by Lariam toxicity, highlighting missing medical records, misdiagnosis, and barriers to compensation.

The UK Ministry of Defence is accused of failing to recognise and properly document the long-term neuropsychiatric harm caused by the anti-malarial drug Lariam, leaving thousands of veterans misdiagnosed, unsupported, and unable to access treatment or compensation.

Reform UK's Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain's most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth

The contempt proceedings against barrister Rajiv Menon over his closing speech in the Filton trial mark an unprecedented challenge to the independence of defence advocacy in Britain. Such an assualt raises fears that politically sensitive cases may increasingly chill robust legal representation and jury argument.

Britain and America are dismantling the systems meant to track and limit civilian deaths in war, signalling a troubling retreat from military accountability and civilian protection.

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Action on Armed Violence has joined a coalition of UK organisations in endorsing a statement urging universities to reject the Defence Universities Alliance, warning that closer ties between higher education and the defence sector risk undermining academic independence and accelerating the militarisation of campuses.

N1788 told the Afghanistan Inquiry that Afghan partner forces became increasingly reluctant to work with a British special forces unit in 2011 amid concerns over deadly night raids and mounting political pressure from President Hamid Karzai.

Here AOAV presents an analysis of how Israel’s strategy of repeated “precision” military operations in Gaza produced short-term tactical successes but has failed to address long-term political instability leading, in the end, to strategic failure.