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The Prince of Wales and the Sultan of Brunei attend a high tea at the Sultan of Brunei's Palace in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, in November 2017
THE Foreign Office is withholding dozens of files from the National Archives about Britain’s cosy relationship with the brutal Sultan of Brunei, the Star has found.
The revelation comes as Britain’s closest ally in south-east Asia starts stoning people to death for sex outside marriage, lashing lesbians and slicing limbs off thieves under a disturbing new penal code.
The department’s secret archive on power-crazed Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah stretches back to 1984, when Brunei became independent from British rule.
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA