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SMILING ASSASSINS: Contra rebels in Nicaragua
Extract / 21 January 2020
21 January 2020
Investigative journalist PHIL MILLER'S new book exposes the activities of Keenie Meenie Services, a powerful and secretive mercenary company which, from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua, has been involved in war crimes around the world.
Captain Dean Sprouting
Britain / 10 October 2019
10 October 2019
US soldiers' 'entirely improper' driving of forklift truck crushed Captain Dean Sprouting
A US airman secures a fuel line on the flightline at Royal A
Britain / 26 September 2019
26 September 2019
An exterior view of the visitors' centre at HMP Coldingley
Britain / 26 September 2019
26 September 2019
Labour Conference ’19 / 24 September 2019
24 September 2019
Britain / 24 September 2019
24 September 2019
Labour war secretary Manny Shinwell MP (centre) sees off 1,5
Features / 24 September 2019
24 September 2019
BRITAIN’S security service spied on Labour MPs, anti-fascists and anti-colonial activists, MI5 files released today reveal. PHIL MILLER went to the National Archives for a sneak preview, and found this newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, was essential reading for British spooks
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Britain / 22 September 2019
22 September 2019
Harmondsworth immigration removal centre
Britain / 20 September 2019
20 September 2019
Delegates wait for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's keynote spe
Britain / 20 September 2019
20 September 2019
Labour's shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon
Labour Conference ’19 / 20 September 2019
20 September 2019
Salma Yaqoob
Britain / 18 September 2019
18 September 2019
The father of a young girl, who is being treated in the Acor
Britain / 18 September 2019
18 September 2019
‘There aren't enough nurses, enough doctors:’ PM's photoshoot wrecked as anguished father slams ‘years and years’ of Tory cuts
Britain / 18 September 2019
18 September 2019
Britain / 17 September 2019
17 September 2019
Protesters celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Lo
Britain / 16 September 2019
16 September 2019
Britain / 16 September 2019
16 September 2019
Harmondsworth immigration removal centre
Britain / 16 September 2019
16 September 2019
Tear gas and baton rounds on display at the Condor stand at
Exclusive: / 16 September 2019
16 September 2019
A Sea King helicopter
Exclusive: / 15 September 2019
15 September 2019
The offending post that was taken down today – after being
Britain / 13 September 2019
13 September 2019
Heavy weaponry on sale at the Defence and Equipment Security
Features / 13 September 2019
13 September 2019
PHIL MILLER reports from the Defence and Security Equipment International expo, where he did not receive the welcome he was expecting
A helicopter outisde the ExCel centre in Canning Town, Londo
Britain / 10 September 2019
10 September 2019
A new poll shows most of the British public oppose selling weapons to the despotic regimes at the show, which has also denied access to two journalists
Exclusive: / 10 September 2019
10 September 2019
Britain / 8 September 2019
8 September 2019
Book Review / 3 September 2019
3 September 2019
Insightful biography of mastermind behind the 1960s bombing campaign by Welsh nationalists
Britain / 25 August 2019
25 August 2019
Police water cannon pro-HDP protesters in Diyarbakir
Britain / 21 August 2019
21 August 2019
The Labour leader broke the silence after mounting pressure from Kurdish activists in Britain who were dismayed by his party’s failure to speak out sooner
Britain / 20 August 2019
20 August 2019
The move against investigative reporter Asa Winstanley comes days after the government-funded Community Safety Trust published a report singling out his coverage of anti-semitism allegations in the Labour Party
Britain / 19 August 2019
19 August 2019
Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth
Britain / 16 August 2019
16 August 2019
Britain / 15 August 2019
15 August 2019
An image from the This is Woke Facebook page
Britain / 15 August 2019
15 August 2019
A Virgin train passes some rusting track at the side of the
Britain / 14 August 2019
14 August 2019
British warship HMS Daring
Britain / 6 August 2019
6 August 2019
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and shadow attorney gener
Britain / 6 August 2019
6 August 2019
‘Discriminatory’ policy shows Tories' hostile environment ‘is still in full force’ and must be scrapped, Labour says after landlords advised to ignore own code
Whitehall censor Charles Bennett previously ran as a Parliam
Exclusive: / 30 July 2019
30 July 2019
Britain / 30 July 2019
30 July 2019
Parliament’s trade committee says it is alarmed by government's failure ‘to set out even basic lines of policy’ on how international arbitration will work after Brexit
Royal Navy submariners on parade
Britain / 29 July 2019
29 July 2019
Afghan war veteran Joe Glenton said a veterans’ union was needed to ‘organise against the officer class’
An RAF Hercules
World Exclusive: / 28 July 2019
28 July 2019
Sgt Tonroe was killed on a joint operation with US forces
World Exclusive: / 26 July 2019
26 July 2019
Sgt Matt Tonroe was killed in Syria on March 29, 2018
World Exclusive: / 26 July 2019
26 July 2019
Sergeant Matt Tonroe was not killed by a roadside bomb but by a colleague's explosives
Boris Johnson sits with his cabinet, two-thirds of which wer
Britain / 25 July 2019
25 July 2019
• Team Boris is posher than Cameron’s cabinet, study finds • Cabinet ministers now NINE times more likely to be privately educated than rest of population • Most elite inner circle since John Major’s reign
Britain / 22 July 2019
22 July 2019
Escapes cost the company £30,000, suicides £10,000 and non-fatal self-harm £716
National Archives Revealed / 18 July 2019
18 July 2019
Former prime minister John Major rejected the US request to
National Archives Revealed / 17 July 2019
17 July 2019
Britain / 14 July 2019
14 July 2019
Britain / 12 July 2019
12 July 2019
Ex-Royal Air Force man Jonathan Williams (second right)
Exclusive: / 7 July 2019
7 July 2019
Victory for Morning Star campaign as Amber Rudd’s miserly department loses in court
BLOOD ON HIS HANDS? Philip Hammond was in Saudi Arabia to di
Britain / 7 July 2019
7 July 2019
Nkululeko Zulu
Britain / 4 July 2019
4 July 2019
By Phil Miller at Victory House
Conservative party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt during a
Britain / 3 July 2019
3 July 2019
The European Roma Rights Centre said the Tory party leadership contender should review his party’s own track record on racism
A general view of a Serco prison van leaving Wormwood Scrubs
Britain / 3 July 2019
3 July 2019
The humiliating sanctions come as the company is slammed over cooking prisoner to death in a cell
Jonathan Williams (centre right) serving in Bosnia in 1994
Exclusive: / 2 July 2019
2 July 2019
Protesters occupy the arms manufacturers Elbit Ferranti's In
Britain / 1 July 2019
1 July 2019
Soldiers carry the coffin of Trooper Carl Smith, 23, who was
Britain / 30 June 2019
30 June 2019
However, payouts would have cost much more if 41 per cent of the 6,719 claims were not rejected
Britain / 30 June 2019
30 June 2019
The Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth
Britain / 14 June 2019
14 June 2019
By Phil Miller at Milton Keynes coroner’s court
A #LondonUnited tribute is projected onto the side of London
Britain / 12 June 2019
12 June 2019
By Phil Miller at the Old Bailey
A general view inside Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Cent
Britain / 12 June 2019
12 June 2019
Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott and other Labour MPs leave th
Britain / 10 June 2019
10 June 2019
The British left hits back at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's sinister remarks
Britain / 9 June 2019
9 June 2019
Marcin Gwozdzinski
Britain / 2 June 2019
2 June 2019
Marcin Gwozdzinski from Poland died at Harmondsworth in 2017
Britain / 26 May 2019
26 May 2019
TUC Disabled Workers' Conference ’19 / 22 May 2019
22 May 2019
Britain / 21 May 2019
21 May 2019
Britain / 17 May 2019
17 May 2019
Britain / 15 May 2019
15 May 2019
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt (right) and First Sea Lord
World / 15 May 2019
15 May 2019
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt hoped new legislation would apply to cases from the Troubles where veterans are on trial over the murders of civilians
Former prisons minister Rory Stewart
Prison Officers’ Association Conference ’19 / 14 May 2019
14 May 2019
Britain / 12 May 2019
12 May 2019
A Detention Custody Officer looks through a cell door observ
Britain / 12 May 2019
12 May 2019
Amir Siman-Tov from Morocco died while on suicide watch at Colnbrook in 2016
Exclusive / 10 May 2019
10 May 2019
Tory Business Secretary Greg Clark
Britain / 10 May 2019
10 May 2019
Workers apply cladding to a building in the Nottingham City
Britain / 9 May 2019
9 May 2019
Tories stump up £200m to reclad private towers but many are left lacking support
Children play outside the National Military Musem, funded by
Features / 9 May 2019
9 May 2019
PHIL MILLER investigates the National Army Museum in Chelsea and its links to the Gulf
Britain / 5 May 2019
5 May 2019
Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad with the late Tony Benn
Interview / 1 May 2019
1 May 2019
The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs launched Jeremy Corbyn’s successful leadership bid in 2015. Phil Miller talks to one of its newest members, EMMA DENT COAD, about her hopes for the future
Britain / 1 May 2019
1 May 2019
Rupert Murdoch's rag has accused the Labour leader of anti-semitism for writing a foreword to a book by an influential historian who has also been cited by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
Firefighters fight the blaze in Grenfell Tower, June 15 2017
Exclusive / 29 April 2019
29 April 2019
Labour's Emma Dent Coad tells the Star of the trauma inflicted on the community
A Kurdish protester is stopped by the police
Britain / 28 April 2019
28 April 2019
Britain / 28 April 2019
28 April 2019
Exclusive / 28 April 2019
28 April 2019
Theresa May poses with Bahrain's tyrannical king Hamad Bin I
Britain / 26 April 2019
26 April 2019
Britain / 25 April 2019
25 April 2019
Britain / 24 April 2019
24 April 2019
Omnishambles: Change UK
Britain / 24 April 2019
24 April 2019
Sir Alan Duncan
Britain / 24 April 2019
24 April 2019
Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Britain / 23 April 2019
23 April 2019
‘Instead of training torturers, perhaps the Huddersfield University academics should focus on Bahrain's unjust criminal justice system,’ Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy says
Boris Johnson's sister Rachel Johnson (right) and father Sta
Britain / 23 April 2019
23 April 2019
Labour MP Dan Carden tells the Star: ‘It’s laughable that a party calling itself Change UK is so nakedly committed to stopping change at all costs’
A woman grieves for the loss of her 12-year old niece at St
Britain / 22 April 2019
22 April 2019
Prayer meetings held last night at Tamil churches in Tooting and Southall to take stock of the bombings
Relatives of a blast victim grieve outside a morgue in Colom
Features / 22 April 2019
22 April 2019
Although the government has already blamed Islamist extremists for the wave of deadly bombings, something does not add up, writes PHIL MILLER
Britain / 19 April 2019
19 April 2019
Britain / 19 April 2019
19 April 2019
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) together
Britain / 18 April 2019
18 April 2019
Critics say was ‘designed to whitewash Turkey’s war crimes’
A quarter of the total backlog at the Information Commission
Exclusive / 18 April 2019
18 April 2019
PHIL MILLER reveals how staff shortages at the Information Commissioner’s Office are placing the public’s ‘right to know’ in jeopardy
Tania El-Keria, the mother of 14-year-old Amy El-Keria, outs
Britain / 17 April 2019
17 April 2019
Amy El-Keria was 14 when she was found hanged in her psychiatric ward room at the Priory in Ticehurst, East Sussex in 2012
British troops pose with Bahraini military personnel
Exclusive / 16 April 2019
16 April 2019
Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said the training was ‘incredibly concerning’
Britain / 16 April 2019
16 April 2019
Britain / 15 April 2019
15 April 2019
Michael Mansfield QC said the formation of the new union was ‘long overdue’
Britain / 15 April 2019
15 April 2019
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson)
TUC Black Workers' Conference / 12 April 2019
12 April 2019
TUC deputy general secretary Paul Nowak denounced Robinson as ‘a bully, a bigot and a fraud’
TUC Black Workers Conference / 12 April 2019
12 April 2019
Black Workers Conference / 12 April 2019
12 April 2019
TUC analysis finds an ethnicity pay gap
Britain / 10 April 2019
10 April 2019
by Phil Miller at the Court of Appeal
Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London ahea
Britain / 9 April 2019
9 April 2019
Campaign Against Arms Trade challenges Sajid Javid's decision not to suspend bomb sales to Saudi Arabia in the Court of Appeal
The Prince of Wales and the Sultan of Brunei attend a high t
Britain / 8 April 2019
8 April 2019
Exclusive / 8 April 2019
8 April 2019
Hundreds of traumatised ex-troops have raised complaints about Combat Stress's refusal to treat them
Britain / 5 April 2019
5 April 2019
Nirj Deva (left) at the European Parliament
Britain / 5 April 2019
5 April 2019
Britain / 4 April 2019
4 April 2019
Britain / 4 April 2019
4 April 2019
A British soldier stakes off his boots in Oman
Britain / 4 April 2019
4 April 2019
Decommissioned nuclear submarines at Rosyth on the Firth of
Britain / 3 April 2019
3 April 2019
MoD has not disposed of a retired sub since 1980
Turkey's President and ruling Justice and Development Party
Britain / 1 April 2019
1 April 2019
The Star's Steve Sweeney was barred from entering Turkey last Friday
Brunei Flag
Britain / 31 March 2019
31 March 2019
Westminster Abbey
Britain / 28 March 2019
28 March 2019
The Royal Courts of Justice
Britain / 27 March 2019
27 March 2019
by Phil Miller at the High Court
Britain / 27 March 2019
27 March 2019
Iraqi prisoner of war ‘almost certainly’ died while restrained by RAF crew who handed body to US troops for a no-questions-asked burial, report finds
Britain / 26 March 2019
26 March 2019
A leading charity has slammed the scheduled expulsion flight forcing people to Nigeria and Ghana tonight
Ella Abraham
Features / 22 March 2019
22 March 2019
67,000 signatories are calling on the Department for Work and Pensions to stop sending GPs letters claiming that their patients do not need a ‘fi t note’, writes PHIL MILLER
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence demonstrates how to wire ta
Britain / 22 March 2019
22 March 2019
by Phil Miller in Cheltenham
Britain / 21 March 2019
21 March 2019
Exclusive / 18 March 2019
18 March 2019
The Tories are redefining low-paid work, says Labour's shadow Home Office minister Richard Rosser
Britain / 15 March 2019
15 March 2019
Britain / 15 March 2019
15 March 2019
by Phil Miller at Westminster magistrates’ court
Britain / 14 March 2019
14 March 2019
Combat Stress criticised for charging £99 for tickets to its Veterans Mental Health conference and ignoring soldiers while inviting royalty
Britain / 12 March 2019
12 March 2019
New research shows how the lacklustre deputy leader has trousered over £10,000 in freebies
Exclusive / 11 March 2019
11 March 2019
Britain’s Special Boat Service uses a fleet of US-made miniature submarines with a history of fatal accidents, the Star can reveal
Book Review / 10 March 2019
10 March 2019
An Inconvenient Death poses worrying questions about the death of Dr David Kelly at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003
Home Secretary Sajid Javid
Britain / 6 March 2019
6 March 2019
The judgement is an embarrassing blow to Home Secretary Sajid Javid whose department often claims asylum-seekers are not genuine victims of torture
Exclusive: / 6 March 2019
6 March 2019
Information Commissioner's anonymity order could hide Britain's role in 1984 bloodshed
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is presented with some flo
Britain / 4 March 2019
4 March 2019
Britain / 3 March 2019
3 March 2019
Britain / 3 March 2019
3 March 2019
Britain / 1 March 2019
1 March 2019
Judge tears apart key policy of PM's ‘hostile environment’ policy
Culture / 1 March 2019
1 March 2019
Unquiet Graves reveals the British state's role in the sectarian killing spree in 1970s Armagh and Tyrone, says PHIL MILLER
MI5's headquarters in London
Britain / 28 February 2019
28 February 2019
Britain / 28 February 2019
28 February 2019
Former Tory MP Patrick Mercer speaks outside the House of Co
Britain / 28 February 2019
28 February 2019
The Yorkshire Post, the newspaper that ‘broke’ the Williamson story, published articles by former Tory MP Patrick Mercer — who once called an Israeli soldier ‘a bloody Jew’