Craig Murray's blog

The blog of a former UK diplomat of rare perspicacity and integrity, whose blog was "jolted back out of retirement" by the "horrifying" spectacle of Tony Blair speaking at Ariel Sharon’s Funeral

 http://www.craigmurray.org.uk
Started: March 2005
Founder: Craig Murray

Founder/Owner: Craig Murray
Constitutes: Independent media

Craig Murray's blog receives regular posts of thoughtful material by the former UK ambassador. For example, he pointed out evidence that the BBC had edited the soundtrack of Dr. Rola without informing viewers, something which the BBC later admitted after enquiry by Robert Stuart.

Going dark

On 31 July 2021, having been sentenced to eight months imprisonment for the "jigsaw identification" of complainers in the Alex Salmond case, Craig Murray wrote:

"This blog will be going dark for a few months. The Queen kindly paid for my dinners for over twenty years while I was a British diplomat and Ambassador, and now she is going to be paying for my dinners again. That is very kind, I thought she had forgotten me."

2018 Surge in popularity

Craig Murray's blog rose in popularity during the last 2 weeks of March 2018, when he was reporting about the Skripal affair. Alexa's data indicates that the site's global rank rose from about 200,000 to about 100,000. This was in spite of a denial of service attack which was launched in March 2018. By mid April, it was reached #73,626 in the world, and #3,131 in the UK.

Censorship

Craig's blog attracts sometimes hundreds of comments. Some of these he removes as "off topic", including any posts about 9/11, which has prompted Peter Presland to reflect on why.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Craig Murray and 9-11	article	30 January 2010	Peter	A reply to Craig Murray's article explaining his embargo on any further discussion of 9-11 in the comments section of his blog

 

Documents sourced from Craig Murray's blog

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Bigger than 911	article	HMS Astute grounding	23 October 2010	Craig Murray	Some light relief at the expense of the MOD and its Trident nuclear missile carrying submarine fleet.
Document:A Moment in History	blog post	Labour Friends of Israel Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn Parliamentary Labour Party	26 June 2019	Craig Murray	It is ESSENTIAL that every Labour Party member reading this blog acts NOW to try to get rid of those dreadful Blairite MPs. If you do not act, the historic moment will be missed and the chance to move England and Wales away from neoliberalism may be permanently surrendered.
Document:All Pretence is Over in Persecution of Assange	blog post	Wikileaks James Arbuthnot Emma Arbuthnot Julian Assange/Imprisonment	14 February 2018	Craig Murray	“Lady” Arbuthnot has perhaps performed an unwitting public service by the brazen nature of her partiality, which exposes beyond refutation the charade of legal process behind the effort to arrest Assange, in reality over the publication of USA secrets.
Document:American Presidents	blog post	Joe Biden Donald Trump US/2020 Presidential election Kamala Harris	4 November 2020	Craig Murray	On the US election I showed my limitations with a tweet yesterday evening predicting Joe Biden would win fairly comfortably, and Trump would concede with good grace. I was wrong.
Document:An Unpopular Article	blog post	Boris Johnson Charlotte Edwardes Jennifer Arcuri	1 October 2019	Craig Murray	Throwing the kitchen sink of accusations against Boris Johnson obscures with chaff the allegations of real wrongdoing, like directing public funds and assistance to the company of a woman with whom he was in a sexual relationship. That should be investigated.
Document:Assange Bail Application Today	blog post	Nils Melzer Vanessa Baraitser Westminster Magistrates' Court COVID-19 International Bar Association Julian Assange/Imprisonment	25 March 2020	Craig Murray	If the authorities now refuse to allow him out on bail during the COVID-19 outbreak, I do not see how anybody can possibly argue there is any intention other than to cause his death.
Document:Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail	blog post	John Pilger Jeffrey Epstein Gina Haspel Julian Assange/Imprisonment	13 August 2019	Craig Murray	Many of the same people who are relieved by Jeffrey Epstein’s death would like to see Julian Assange dead too.
Document:Backing the Wrong Horseman	blog post	Israel Middle East Saudi Arabia US UK COVID-19		Craig Murray	The neo-con drive to dominate the Middle East, in alliance with Saudi Arabia and Israel, has caused an apocalyptic level of death and destruction, which I put (an extremely conservative figure) at 5 million dead. Now compare that to the worldwide death toll from coronavirus: 220,000. Let me say that again. Western aggressive wars to coronavirus: 5,000,000 versus 220,000.
Document:Beyond Words	blog post	Julian Assange Alex Salmond Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Vanessa Baraitser COVID-19	8 April 2020	Craig Murray	Nobody cultivates her own anonymity more than Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser who has her existence carefully removed from the Internet almost entirely. Yet she seeks to destroy the peace and young lives of Julian Assange’s family.
Document:Censorship and Freedom of Speech	blog post	Censorship Tony Blair Corruption	1 October 2008	Craig Murray
Document:Chelsea and Julian are in Jail. History Trembles.	blog post	Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Michael Snow	12 April 2019	Craig Murray	Julian Assange said nothing during the whole brief proceedings, other than to say “Not guilty” twice, and to ask a one sentence question about why the charges were changed midway through this sham “trial”. Yet Judge Michael Snow condemned Assange as “narcissistic”.
Document:Civil Liberty Vanishes	blog post	Julian Assange Liam Fox Matthew Gould Adam Werritty Palantir Technologies Priti Patel NHSX	6 May 2020	Craig Murray	"Serious questions have to be asked about why the UK government has developed its own unique app, universally criticised for its permanent central data collection and ability to identify individuals from their unique codes. That this is overseen by NHSX CEO Matthew Gould who held all those secret meetings with Liam Fox and Adam Werritty, including with Mossad, frankly stinks."
Document:Epstein's Death Must Be the Start, not the End, of the Investigation	blog post	Alan Dershowitz Bill Clinton Jeffrey Epstein Andrew Windsor Ghislaine Maxwell Virginia Roberts Carl Beech	11 August 2019	Craig Murray	It is a great shame that in the UK, the Establishment has been able to characterise the falsifications of Carl Beech as discrediting the entire notion of historical child sexual abuse.
Document:FBI Fabrication Against Assange Falls Apart	blog post	Julian Assange Gareth Peirce Vanessa Baraitser Sigi Thordarson Mark Summers	29 June 2021	Craig Murray	The revelation that Sigi Thordarson’s allegations are fabricated – which everyone knew already, Vanessa Baraitser just pretended she didn’t – is just one more illegality that the Establishment will shimmy over in its continued persecution of Julian Assange.
Document:First Recorded Successful Novichok Synthesis was in 2016 – By Iran, in Cooperation with the OPCW	blog post	Iran Theresa May Russia Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Novichok Chemical Weapons Convention	17 March 2018	Craig Murray	Beginning in late 2016, Iranian scientists succeeded in synthesising a number of Novichoks in full cooperation with the OPCW. This makes a complete nonsense of Theresa May’s “of a type developed by Russia” line, used to Parliament and the UN Security Council.
Document:Has the Elite’s Slavish pro-Israel Agenda Finally Gone Too Far	Blog post	"Antisemitism" Israel/Defense Forces Jeremy Corbyn Hezbollah 2006 Lebanon War Sajid Javid	25 February 2019	Craig Murray	Israeli destruction of Palestinian olive trees in the occupied territories is almost as heinous as the continuing killing and imprisonment of Palestinian children. Every morning ask yourself this question: "How many children has the Israeli “Defence” Force killed since the MSM last reported one?"
Document:How To Spot A Twitter Troll	Wikispooks Page	MI6 GCHQ MI5 Integrity Initiative Troll 77th Brigade	2 July 2019	Craig Murray	Exposure is the simple way to nullify the vast state propaganda programmes on social media
Document:How to spot a Twitter troll	blog post	MI6 GCHQ MI5 Integrity Initiative Troll The 77th Brigade	2 July 2019	Craig Murray	Exposure is the simple way to nullify the vast state propaganda programmes on social media
Document:Huawei Hypocrisy	blog post	GCHQ National Security Agency Nick Clegg Theresa May Gavin Williamson Huawei	7 May 2019	Craig Murray	Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg said GCHQ's ability "to hack anything from handsets to whole networks … needs to be much better understood".
Document:I Am Obliged to Reconsider My Support for the European Union	Article	Spain European Union Mariano Rajoy Catalonia Carles Puigdemont	3 October 2017	Craig Murray	Today, and with a greater sadness than you can imagine, I withdraw my support for membership of the European Union
Document:I Go to Stand My Trial	Blog post	Mark Lewis Jake Wallis Simons	2 November 2017	Craig Murray	The Trial starts on Tuesday 7 November at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, High Court Queen’s Bench Division, and lasts for two or three days. By the time I come back online the Tories will have appointed their next Disgraced Former Defence Secretary in Waiting.
Document:Importing Jihadi Terror to the UK – Cui Bono	blog post	White Helmets 2017 Manchester bombing Salman Abedi	25 September 2018	Craig Murray	Importing the White Helmets into the UK is obviously nuts if your purpose is to minimise jihadi activity in the UK
Document:Index on Disgrace	Article	BBC The Guardian The Times University of Dundee Save the Children Index on Censorship FCO	22 April 2018	Craig Murray	"We thus have the extraordinary spectacle of a coordinated government and media onslaught on anybody who doubts their entirely fact free narratives. Public trust in the state and corporate media hits new lows, which is the happy part of this story."
Document:Interfering with Laura Kuenssberg	blog post	Boris Johnson Laura Kuenssberg Brexit Dominic Cummings Vox pop Echo chamber UK/General election/2019	25 November 2019	Craig Murray	It's no coincidence that it is precisely the old and the poorly educated that are the targets of Dominic Cummings’ "Brexit election” strategy. If it comes off, Laura Kuenssberg and her fellow hacks will have proven that the power of the mainstream media is as yet unbroken.
Document:Internalised Danger	blog post	"Climate change" Joe Biden Donald Trump Bernie Sanders US/2020 Presidential election Kamala Harris Green New Deal	6 November 2020	Craig Murray	America urgently needs a radical dose of social and economic reform as championed by Bernie Sanders. It needs the Green New Deal, and the world needs a real commitment in Washington to environmentalism.
Document:It’s Not Socialism. It’s Another Mega Wealth Transfer.	blog post	Boris Johnson Richard Branson COVID-19 Carphone Warehouse Cosalt David Ross Asset stripping	23 March 2020	Craig Murray	Amid the COVID-19 panic, it has hardly been noticed that Carphone Warehouse went bust, with 2,900 people losing their jobs. Its co-founder, David Ross, is of course the billionaire that Boris Johnson claimed paid for his luxury holiday to Mustique, whereas Ross claimed he only organised it.
Document:Let’s Move On From Boris	blog post	Tony Blair Richard Nixon Bill Clinton Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings	28 May 2020	Craig Murray	"Boris Johnson on the Dominic Cummings debacle: 'It is now time to move on… the country wants to move on.' If a politician tells you to 'move on' from a subject, it is a gigantic red flag that you should do precisely the opposite."
Document:Matthew Gould and the Plot to Attack Iran	webpage	Matthew Gould	14 November 2011	Craig Murray
Document:Media Freedom? Show me the MSM Journalist Opposing the Torture of Assange	blog post	Julian Assange Corporate media Rupert Murdoch David Aaronovitch Belmarsh Prison Extinction Rebellion Old Bailey	7 September 2020	Craig Murray	At a time when the government is mooting designating Extinction Rebellion as Serious Organised Crime, right wing bequiffed muppet Keir Starmer was piously condemning the group, stating: “The free press is the cornerstone of democracy and we must do all we can to protect it.”
Document:Metropolitan Police on 'Chepiga' and 'Mishkin'	blog post	Bellingcat Skripal Affair 2018 Amesbury poisonings Alexander Petrov Ruslan Boshirov	12 October 2018	Craig Murray	I remain of the view that the best way forward would be for Putin to negotiate conditions under which Boshirov and Petrov might voluntarily come to the UK for trial
Document:Mohammed Bin Salman: The Truth Behind The Reformist Facade	blog post	Donald Trump Mohammed bin Salman	8 March 2018	Craig Murray	Then something remarkable happened which the world mainstream media has almost entirely ignored. Despite Saudi sponsored adverts all over US media portraying named senior Qataris as terrorist sponsors, and despite strong Israeli pro-Saudi lobbying, Donald Trump suddenly called Mohammed bin Salman to heel.
Document:Momento Mori – Unpopular Thoughts on Corona Virus	blog post	COVID-19 Spanish flu Hong Kong flu COVID-19/Panic	7 March 2020	Craig Murray	Consider this: 100% of those who contract COVID-19 are going to die. 100% of those who do not contract COVID-19 are also going to die. The difference in average life expectancy between the two groups will prove to be only very marginal. That is because the large majority of those who die of COVID-19 will already be nearing the end of life or have other health problems.
Document:Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie	Blog post	Wikileaks Julian Assange Robert Mueller William Binney Katharine Viner Cambridge Analytica Carole Cadwalladr Paul Manafort Sergei Skripal Luke Harding Integrity Initiative Russiagate Muellergate Ed Loomis Steele dossier	1 April 2019	Craig Murray	The capacity of the mainstream media repeatedly to promote the myth that Russia caused Clinton’s defeat, while never mentioning what the information was that had been so damaging to Hillary, should be alarming to anybody under the illusion that we have a working “free media”.
Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense	blog post	Vladimir Putin Angela Merkel Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Alexei Navalny Novichok Skripal Affair Integrity Initiative Ben Nimmo Nord Stream	3 September 2020	Craig Murray	The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt.
Document:On the Pavement with Wikileaks	blog post	Wikileaks Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Kristinn Hrafnsson Lenín Moreno	7 April 2019	Craig Murray	Pretty well all of the Western media is going to want to focus on these false anti-Assange narratives, and they will be determined to give as little attention as possible to the fact he is a publisher facing trial for publishing leaked state documents which revealed state wrongdoing. It is a classic and fundamental issue of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Document:People Need to Reclaim the Internet	blog post	Julian Assange Internet/Censorship Hunter Biden Shadow banning Richard Stallman Burisma	19 October 2020	Craig Murray	The development of social media gatekeeping of internet traffic is one of the key socio-political issues of our time. We need the original founders of the Internet to get together with figures like Richard Stallman and – vitally – Julian Assange – to find a way we break free from this.
Document:Pollokshields Shows How To Achieve Independence	blog post	Boris Johnson Glasgow Scottish independence UK/Supreme Court	14 May 2021	Craig Murray	Pollokshields showed how the people of Scotland will eventually take their own Independence. The “illegal” way in British law. The Gandhi way. The Mandela way. The people’s way. You cannot impose UK law on the people of Scotland.
Document:President Abbas’ Rebuke to Theresa May over Palestine	blog post	Israel Theresa May Palestine Mark Lewis Jake Wallis Simons Mahmoud Abbas Mandy Blumenthal Alan Blumenthal	24 September 2017	Craig Murray	The ignored part of the Balfour Declaration to which Abbas referred is of course: “It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”
Document:Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning	blog post	Sergei Skripal Novichok Pablo Miller BZ Skripal Affair DSMA-Notice Ken McCallum Steele dossier	28 April 2018	Craig Murray Clive Ponting	Those of us who have been in the belly of the beast and have worked closely with the intelligence services, really do know what they and the British government are capable of. They are not “white knights”.
Document:So Where is the Swedish Warrant?	blog post	Julian Assange Stella Creasy	27 April 2019	Craig Murray	All those Blairite MPs who seek to dodge the glaring issue of freedom of the media to publish whistleblower material revealing government crimes, by hiding behind trumped-up sexual allegations, are left looking pretty stupid.
Document:That Leaked Labour Party Report	blog post	Labour Party John McTernan Keir Starmer Sam Matthews John Ware Emilie Oldknow Governance and Legal Unit Martin Forde Information Commissioner's Office	20 April 2020	Craig Murray	That Leaked Labour Party Report proves conclusively that Sam Matthews’ allegations of unwarranted interference from Corbyn’s office to block anti-semitism action are malicious lies.
Document:The Armoured Glass Box is an Instrument of Torture	blog post	Vanessa Baraitser Julian Assange/Imprisonment		Craig Murray	I think there is a corner of the mind of this daughter of dissidents from apartheid that rejects her own role in the torture of Julian Assange, and is continually urging “I had no choice, I had no agency”. Those who succumb to do evil must find what internal comfort they may.
Document:The Broader View Reveals the Ugliest of Prospects	blog post	Julian Assange MI6 MI5 The Guardian Jeremy Corbyn Mike Pompeo Matt Kennard	17 June 2019	Craig Murray	I find it hard to believe that I live in times where Julian Assange suffers as he does for telling the truth, where a dedicated anti-racist like Jeremy Corbyn is subjected to daily false accusations of racism and to US and security service backed efforts to thwart his democratic prospects, where the most laughable false flag is paraded to move us towards war with Iran, and where there is no semblance of a genuinely independent media.
Document:The Four Horsemen Gallop By	blog post	Theresa May Syria Donald Trump Skripal Affair	11 April 2018	Craig Murray	The notion that Britain will take part in military action against Syria with neither investigation of the evidence nor a parliamentary vote is worrying indeed. Without Security Council authorisation, any such action is illegal in any event.
Document:The Freedom of Courage	blog post	Corporate media The Establishment G4S Secure Solutions Francisco Franco Mariano Rajoy Catalonia Serco Carles Puigdemont	1 October 2017	Craig Murray	When you see the right wing Establishment worldwide, plus the entire mainstream media, united against ordinary people as we see today in Catalonia, it's a no-brainer which side you should be on.
Document:The Gulf of Credibility	blog post	Iran Norway Shinzō Abe Mike Pompeo Frontline John Bolton	14 June 2019	Craig Murray	That Iran would target a Japanese ship and a friendly Russian crewed ship is a ludicrous allegation
Document:The Incredible Disappearance of Shai Masot	blog post	Liam Fox Corporate media Joan Ryan Adam Werritty John Mann Shai Masot Peter Willsman Israel/Lobby	2 June 2019	Craig Murray	The open attempt to stifle all criticism of Israel, and in effect to make adherence to zionism a pre-condition for membership of the Labour Party – or indeed acceptance in wider society – is a vicious form of authoritarianism that should have been repudiated robustly from day one.
Document:The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian	comment	The Guardian Stephen Burgen Jennifer Rankin Catalan Independence	31 October 2017	Craig Murray
Document:The Magnitsky Myth Exploded	blog post	European Court of Human Rights Magnitsky Act Bill Browder Sergei Magnitsky	16 September 2019	Craig Murray	Craig Murray: I am offering a bottle of Lagavulin to anybody who can find me an honest and fair MSM report of this judgement reflecting that the whole story was built on lies.
Document:The Price of Peace	blog post	Michael Gove Centre for Policy Studies Brexit Democratic Unionist Party Anglo-Irish Agreement Good Friday Agreement European Research Group	6 November 2018	Craig Murray	It is not possible to understand the current state of play in Brexit negotiations, without understanding that those effectively driving the Tory Party position do not view a hard border with Ireland as undesirable. They view it as a vital achievement en route to rolling back power sharing and all the affirmative measures which brought peace to Northern Ireland, in an affirmation of the glory and power of unionism.
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