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 |



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.
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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.[1] 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.[2]
Related Document
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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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
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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 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: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 | Julian Assange Nils Melzer Vanessa Baraitser Westminster Magistrates' Court COVID-19 International Bar Association | 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 | Julian Assange John Pilger Jeffrey Epstein Gina Haspel | 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: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 | 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: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 | 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 | Julian Assange Vanessa Baraitser | 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 | 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 | 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 Convention on 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. |
Document:The Sad Death of James Le Mesurier | blog post | White Helmets James Le Mesurier | 12 November 2019 | Craig Murray | James Le Mesurier’s usefulness to Western security services, Israel and their Gulf allies came to an end when the jihadist headchoppers to whom Le Mesurier had been providing logistic support and invaluable propaganda, lost their last secure footing in Syria. |
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." |
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