The only UK connection to the dispute in Nigeria is that the practices of British oil companies have helped create the resentment that turned to rebellion. We should not get involved in more killing for oil, says Craig Murray

Craig Murray on the latest exaggeration of the terrorist threat.

Craig Murray's piece for Foreign Service, the house magazine for US diplomats, on the lessons of his time as British ambassador to Uzbekistan.

The idea that big companies drive foreign policy is not an abstract concept, writes Craig Murray, but comes down to very real contracts, very real money and very real, and often very nasty, people.

MI6 sources now pronouncing on their opposition to the Iraq war, writes Craig Murray, is not so much like watching rats leaving a sinking a ship as watching them pretend they were never on board.

In the wake of the Independent Police Complaints Commission's report into the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, Craig Murray argues that the lies which the Metropolitan Police told - from Sir Ian Blair down - in the ensuing cover-up were inexcusable.

The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee's recent report into Extraordinary Rendition finds "no evidence" of rendition flights of torture, writes Craig Murray - and appears decidedly reluctant to look for any.

Afghanistan is not the "good" twin of the Iraq war, writes Craig Murray. Not only is the conflict unwinnable, but our stated goals of bringing democracy and development to the country are far from sincere.

Gordon Brown is attempting to establish his hard man credentials by trailing the next bunch of anti-terror laws, writes Craig Murray.

Craig Murray comments on further evidence that Daily Mail writer Melanie Phillips has gone barking mad.

Dundee University, as its new Rector Craig Murray discovered, appears to have come a long way from being the self-governing democratic community it is supposed to be.

Craig Murray on the double standards applied in the enforcement of the Official Secrets Act.

There has been something of a stir lately over Le Monde's revelation that France passed warning to the CIA in 2001 that Bin Laden was planning an aircraft hijacking, writes Craig Murray - but nobody has paid a great deal of attention to the fact that the French intelligence came from the unreliable, torture-employing Uzbek security services.

The readiness of the British media, in reporting on Mohammed Sheikh Khalid, to instil fear on behalf of the Orwellian government is predictable, writes Craig Murray.

Senior New Labour figures are entitled to the full protection of the law against prejudicing trials. Is the same consideration applied to Muslims accused of terrorist offences?

The BBC's "The State Within" is important television, touching on some of the most profound themes of our worrying times.

The details we can glean of the alleged airline bomb plot are growing more suspicious by the day - but this hasn't stopped the media devoting an obsessive level of attention to it.

We should view the recent "terror plot" allegations with intense skepticism, especially in light of their deeply political timing.

The Foreign Office has is trying to suppress documents relating to the use of information extracted under torture in Uzbekistan. Craig murray, Britian's former amabassador to Uzbekistan, reveals two such documents here.

The horrible reality of Britain's reliance on torture.