Who benefits when security becomes a permanent emergency? Oxford anthropologist Ruben Andersson talks to AOAV’s Iain Overton about the politics and profits of fear, the expansion of surveillance, and why diplomacy and peace deserve a hearing.
An inquiry examining allegations that British Special Forces unlawfully killed civilians in Afghanistan has cost the taxpayer £58 million, according to Ministry of Defence figures, as the process stretches towards its fourth year without published findings.
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has quit, warning that AI companies are racing towards superintelligence despite fears the technology could become uncontrollable.
Exclusive: Freedom of Information disclosures reveal just nine MoD fraud referrals to civilian prosecutors over five years, amid warnings of potential fraud exposure of up to £1.5bn.
The party's rise has been fuelled by strong patriotic messaging, yet important questions remain about its approach to security and armed violence.
British military courts have missed their target for the timely listing of sexual-offence trials for a third consecutive year, according to a new independent inspection of the Military Court Service.
Drill and rap lyrics are increasingly being used as evidence in British courts. But violent music should not be treated as autobiography, nor performance as proof of participation in violent crime.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that UK military personnel served aboard US Navy vessels in the Caribbean during the period when American forces carried out lethal strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats condemned as extrajudicial killings.
Britain flew more than 600 surveillance missions over or near Gaza during the war. The RAF holds footage from the day seven World Central Kitchen workers were killed. It raises a wider question: what else did Britain’s aircraft see?
The UK Ministry of Defence says it holds information on correspondence with the European Defence Agency over Afghanistan, while the EU agency insists that no such records exist in its holdings.
AOAV analysis finds a stark ideological divide in British media coverage of the Afghanistan Inquiry, with right-wing outlets far more likely to portray scrutiny of alleged SAS killings as a witch hunt, lawfare or a threat to national security.
Since 1 January 2011, Belgian artist Dieter Ohler has spent every day recording newspaper headlines about deaths around the world, creating thousands of handwritten pages that explore how journalism turns human lives into numbers.