British military made at least 49 defence trips to Israel during Gaza war aoav.org.uk/2025/british...

👉NEW -- British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war by @iainoverton.bsky.social Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported. www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...

Latest British Armed Forces survey reveals the scale of sexualised misconduct aoav.org.uk/2025/latest-...

The Court of Appeal’s refusal to hear Al-Haq’s challenge of the UK’s supply of F-35 components to Israel has is an appalling judgment that shields government arms export decisions from legal scrutiny despite their humanitarian consequences. aoav.org.uk/2025/court-o...

Gun safety unites America: survey finds Republicans, Democrats and gun owners agree on key reforms aoav.org.uk/2025/gun-saf...

Radicalised masculinity: Incel ideology and the British Armed Forces examined aoav.org.uk/2025/radical...

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Trump’s border wars at sea: how the US is turning the Caribbean into a killing zone aoav.org.uk/2025/trumps-...

MoD’s annual accounts for 2024/5 receive a ‘qualified audit’. What basis is this for public spending assurances as defence budgets reach new highs? aoav.org.uk/2025/mods-an...

Defence firms gave £178,500 to Westminster APPGs over three years New by me for @aoav.bsky.social aoav.org.uk/2025/defence...

Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party Why is ‘anti-globalist’ Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum? Iain Overton bylinetimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

MoD’s annual accounts for 2024/5 receive a ‘qualified audit’. What basis is this for public spending assurances as defence budgets reach new highs? aoav.org.uk/2025/mods-an...

Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party bylinetimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law aoav.org.uk/2025/the-lav...

British Army ends controversial use of white phosphorus in Kenya. Questions of accountability and compensation linger aoav.org.uk/2025/british...

Inquiry examines recovered UK Special Forces server data in Afghanistan killings probe after ‘cover-up’ deletion aoav.org.uk/2025/inquiry...

High Court sides with secrecy: how Britain’s Afghanistan Inquiry has been predictably dragged further into the shadows in the name of ‘National Security’ aoav.org.uk/2025/high-co...

“Do Not Join”: the British Army’s misogyny problem is a risk to national-security aoav.org.uk/2025/do-not-...

Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry to defend human rights www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Trump’s nuclear confusion risks lighting a fuse the world cannot control. My thoughts for @aoav.bsky.social aoav.org.uk/2025/trumps-...

Israeli military in crisis as Advocate General resigns over rape video leak aoav.org.uk/2025/israeli...

The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering aoav.org.uk/2025/the-phi...

Silicon valley’s new front line: are US defence-tech firms exploiting Britain’s culture wars? aoav.org.uk/2025/silicon...

The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering aoav.org.uk/2025/the-phi...

1/ UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during the Gaza war AOAV’s new analysis reveals Britain’s most senior military personnel repeatedly visited Israel while its forces bombarded Gaza, as international calls for an arms embargo grew. aoav.org.uk/2025/uk-defe...

👉NEW -- UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war by @iainoverton.bsky.social Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-defence-c...

🔴Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia? @iainoverton.bsky.social travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/i...

Are defence stocks too high? A piece by @iainoverton.bsky.social and Paula Muresan aoav.org.uk/2025/are-def...

Are defence stocks too high? A piece by myself and Paula Muresan aoav.org.uk/2025/are-def...

From your faithful correspondent in Tashkent (me): Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia? bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/i...

States call for stronger action on explosive weapons in populated areas at the UN ahead of San José conference aoav.org.uk/2025/states-...

Silicon valley’s new front line: are US defence-tech firms exploiting Britain’s culture wars? aoav.org.uk/2025/silicon...

This is from the national press in Kenya. Don't underestimate how problematic this issue has become out there. When the west forgets its morality — The shame of British soldiers in Kenya www.ippmedia.com/the-guardian...

Over 50 Britons fought for Israel during Gaza offensive, raising questions of war crimes liability aoav.org.uk/2025/over-50...

Like Paul Marshall, the very Conservative Christian academic James Orr has mastered the art of political and cultural influence away from the public eye. That’s changing - as his appointment as a senior advisor to Reform UK shows. Learn more about him at the link below by @iainoverton.bsky.social …

Britain’s Army faces a reckoning over decades of alleged sexual abuse aoav.org.uk/2025/britain...

Today I submitted my new book to my publishers. It's a short book, and didn't break my brain to write like the last one did, but - after the year I've had, the money and time taken from me due to the collapse of my former publishers - I am going to give myself just a small pat on the back for this.

A volunteer vacancy in human rights reporting. www.linkedin.com/posts/annaso...

Justice deferred, justice denied: the Bloody Sunday verdict and the British military’s long war against accountability This verdict makes a mockery of the Saville Inquiry. aoav.org.uk/2025/justice...

Are you interested in volunteering to help us create the world's first 21st century mass shooting global database? If so, please join @aoav.bsky.social aoav.org.uk/job/voluntee...

Did Britain fly at least 623 spy flights over Gaza? AOAV’s data suggests so. My report for @aoav.bsky.social aoav.org.uk/2025/did-bri...

👉NEW -- Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends by Phil Miller, @iainoverton.bsky.social & Des Freedman Aircraft contracted to look for hostages continues to fly from UK base despite ceasefire, with drones also spotted. www.declassifieduk.org/spy-plane-re...

New report by Des Freedman, Phil Miller and myself for ⁦‪Declassified UK. Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends www.declassifieduk.org/spy-plane-re...

This is a much better article on James Orr than the superficial one in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social this weekend. It engages with his actual thought. Orr’s work, like Nigel Biggar’s is not widely respected, but the status of his institution lends unwarranted leverage to his ideas.

Justice deferred: the long fight to bring Agnes Wanjiru’s killer to trial aoav.org.uk/2025/justice...

If only I had the blind self confidence of a posh British former officer.

Is Europe turning its back on arming Israel? Across Europe, governments, investors and trade unions have begun tightening restrictions on arms and financial ties with Israel, a fragile but notable shift in the continent’s long-standing defence relations aoav.org.uk/2025/is-euro...

The mystery of lawlessness @aoav.bsky.social reflects on Cardinal Pizzaballa’s call to confront the “mystery of lawlessness”, the moral collapse revealed by Gaza’s devastation and the global normalisation of suffering in an age that confuses power with justice. aoav.org.uk/2025/the-mys...