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

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.

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:Censorship and Freedom of Speech	blog post	Censorship Tony Blair Corruption	1 October 2008	Craig Murray
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 Julian Assange James Arbuthnot Emma Arbuthnot	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: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: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	Julian Assange GCHQ National Security Agency Nick Clegg Theresa May Edward Snowden Gavin Williamson Meng Wanzhou 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:Matthew Gould and the Plot to Attack Iran	webpage	Matthew Gould	14 November 2011	Craig Murray
Document:Metropolitan Police on 'Chepiga' and 'Mishkin'	blog post	Bellingcat Skripal Affair Alexander Petrov Ruslan Boshirov Dawn Sturgess	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: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: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: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 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:The Broader View Reveals the Ugliest of Prospects	blog post	Julian Assange MI6 MI5 The Guardian Jeremy Corbyn Sajid Javid Mike Pompeo Luke Harding Emma Arbuthnot 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	G4S Corporate media The Establishment 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	John R. Bolton Iran Norway Shinzō Abe Mike Pompeo Frontline	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 Israel Lobby Joan Ryan Adam Werritty John Mann Shai Masot Peter Willsman	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	31 October 2017	Craig Murray
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.
Document:The Stomach-Churning Victim Blaming by “Labour Friends of Israel”	blog post	Labour Friends of Israel Labour Party 2018 Gaza Massacre	14 May 2018	Craig Murray	Craig Murray: "I do not know what institutional ties the “Labour Friends of Israel” has to the Labour Party, but whatever they are they should be cut off immediately."
Document:The Unrelenting State	blog post	Julian Assange Rafael Correa	31 May 2019	Craig Murray	Julian Assange: That the most lucid man I know is now not capable of having a rational conversation is extremely alarming.
Document:The World: What is Really Happening	blog post	White Helmets Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Douma attack Skripal Affair Ian Henderson (OPCW)	25 May 2019	Craig Murray	Alleged nerve gas attack in Syria - Amanda Martin tweets to George Monbiot: "Don't you smell a set up here though? Craig Murray doesn't think Assad did it."
Document:Where They Tell You Not to Look	blog post	Skripal Affair Gordon Corera Luke Harding DSMA-Notice Steele dossier	30 April 2018	Craig Murray	Craig Murray's rule number one of real investigative journalism: 1. Look Where They Tell You Not to Look
Document:Why I am Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar	blog post	Julian Assange Anna Ardin Sofia Wilen	11 September 2012	Craig Murray	To those useful idiots who claim that the way to test these matters is in court, I would say of course, you are right, we should trust the state always, fit-ups never happen, and we should absolutely condemn the disgraceful behaviour of those who campaigned for the Birmingham Six