Farnborough airshow to focus on cleaner flying and potential fighter jet deal
Manufacturers to emphasise their efforts to reduce environmental impact of planes
February 2022
Defense and cybersecurity stocks climb amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Most major US markets closed lower after regaining some losses but defense contractors continued to gain
November 2021
UK adviser on ministers’ interests faces pressure over own financial interests
Exclusive: academics call on Christopher Geidt to step aside from role as chair of a London university
September 2021
Nils Pratley on finance
The breathless pace of deal-making might be baffling THG shareholders
Nils Pratley
Alliance with Australia and US a ‘downpayment on global Britain’
May 2021
Nils Pratley on finance
Liberty Steel wants to buy time, but who will want to snap up its assets?
Nils Pratley
As creditors circle, plan to sell off its key aerospace supply plant comes with one major hitch
December 2020
UK army buys 30 'Bug' drones that can spy on targets 2km away
The strange case of the weapons maker and the Australian children's charity
Paul Daley
July 2020
Britain to resume sale of arms to Saudi Arabia despite Yemen fears
Official review finds airstrikes that broke humanitarian law were ‘isolated incidents’
June 2020
The transparency project
‘Deeply offensive’: Australian War Memorial urged not to renew BAE sponsorship
Soon-to-expire deal with arms manufacturer ‘commercialises the memory of our war dead’
May 2020
'The end of an era': oil price collapse may force Saudis to rein in arms spending
The world’s fifth largest military equipment buyer is eating up its reserves - and its political clout
Barrow residents demand to know if shipyard is coronavirus hotspot
About 9,500 people work at docks in Cumbrian town, which has UK’s highest infection rate
Coronawashing: for big, bad businesses, it's the new greenwashing
Oscar Rickett
Polluters, tax dodgers and outsourcing vultures are urging us to #StaySafe and clap for the NHS, says Oscar Rickett
April 2020
BAE Systems sold £15bn worth of arms to Saudis during Yemen assault
Campaigners also allege latest export values imply UK arms sales greater than government’s declared figures
March 2020
UK government orders more ventilators for coronavirus crisis
New consortium including Airbus Rolls-Royce and F1 teams secures order for 10,000 devices
December 2019
BAE Systems accused of being party to alleged war crimes
A group of human rights organisations have filed a complaint about arms manufacturers to the ICC
September 2019
Nils Pratley on finance
Saudis must push back Aramco's flotation or risk looking desperate
Nils Pratley
Human rights groups protest as world arms fair returns to London
July 2019
UK reclaims place as world's second largest arms exporter
Figures reveal record £14bn sales last year with nearly 80% going to Middle East
June 2019
The long read
‘The Saudis couldn’t do it without us’: the UK’s true role in Yemen’s deadly war
The long read: Britain does not merely supply the bombs that fall on Yemen – it provides the personnel and expertise that keep the war going. But is the government breaking the law?
