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Craig Murray
Personal blog · craigmurray.org.ukpolitics
Craig Murray's personal blog at craigmurray.org.uk covers politics. Since 2009, 114 different Hacker News readers have linked it 252 times, most often “Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 39 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Craig Murray's blog mostly for his daily reporting on the Assange extradition hearings, and for posts on Wikipedia editing, Panama Papers and Bellingcat. Commenters cite them as sources, and some call him biased.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Called a 'gem' for Assange trial reporting, 'worth reading', a 'deep dive', and beating the BBC single-handed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 39 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 117 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-09-17
- The Philip Cross Affair5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-05-20
- The CIA's Absence of Conviction5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-11
- Craig Murray: Ten Points I Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-12
- Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-03
- People Need to Reclaim the Internet4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-19
- Assange Hearing Day 164 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
- Assange Hearing Day 133 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-20
- Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 13 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-25
- /archives/2016/10/really-really-upset-foreign-office-security-services/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-20
What Hacker News says?
>If I want factual information, I just go to Wikipedia and use their search. Wikiepedia is a very good resource for a lot of things, and a good jumping off point, but you shouldn't assume that you are getting "factual information", especially when it comes to hot button social or geopolitical issues. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...
Comment linking /archives/2018/05/the-philip-cross-affair/
on “Google Search Is Dying”Submitted Assange Trial Day 18 as a story · 403 points
HN discussionWhat conspiracy theory? Assange, the person most likely to actually know what happened, has stated that the source for the Podesta emails was a disgruntled "washington insider" In addition, former British ambassador Craig Murray (a man with a solid reputation and little reason to lie) claims to have personally met the source and insists that the source is definitely a political insider without ties to Russia. https:…
Comment linking /archives/2016/12/cias-absence-conviction/
on “CIA malware and hacking tools”Submitted Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak as a story · 389 points
HN discussionCraig Murray's write up on the same event: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/06/fbi-fabricat...
Comment linking /archives/2021/06/fbi-fabrication-against-assange-falls-apart/
on “Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 2 as a story · 371 points
HN discussionWhatever your views on the particular case being blogged about below, it is widely regarded as being hugely important for the freedom of journalists and journalism. In fact I haven't heard the argument that it isn't, if there is one at all. I've also seen nothing to suggest that the below is some kind of bold fabrication. If you're not worried by it, you probably should be. Whenever you hear "They can't be trusted t…
Comment linking /archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-16/
on “‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 6 as a story · 360 points
HN discussion> Unless I'm missing something, this is a minor story ... in order to strengthen an already robust case, not the slam dunk people are making it out to be. I don't think this was a robust case at all. A couple of things to note here: 1. The witness from Iceland whose testimony against Assange has now revealed to have been lies wasn't part of the original case the US put forward. They added him much later into the pro…
Comment linking /archives/2021/06/fbi-fabrication-against-assange-falls-apart/
on “Assange case: Key witness admits he lied”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 17 as a story · 352 points
HN discussionQuite surprised by that verdict. Reading the commentary from Craig Murray [1] I thought it likely he would be extradited. Maybe Trump will pardon him and Snowdon on his way out as well. [1] EG: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/10/your-man-in-...
Comment linking /archives/2020/10/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-21/
on “USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 16 as a story · 352 points
HN discussionHere's a start, each and every one of these is batshit crazy https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/03/pure-ten-poi...
Comment linking /archives/2019/03/pure-ten-points-i-just-cant-believe-about-the-official-skripal-narrative/
on “Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned”Submitted Assange in Court as a story · 259 points
HN discussionI'm pretty sure the set of people who (i) know about and (ii) are neutrally disposed towards most of the political figures highlighted here is an empty one (maybe one can feel neutral towards Kamm, whose foreign policy views in the early 2000s were very wrong but I've never felt to have behaved in a particularly loathsome manner). And it's perfectly possible to contribute in a dispassionate manner about people and o…
Comment linking /archives/2018/05/the-philip-cross-affair/
on “A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign”- mo · 2015-06-14
Submitted Reasons the MI6 Story Is a Lie as a story · 226 points
HN discussion See also: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...
Comment linking /archives/2018/05/the-philip-cross-affair
on “A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 15 as a story · 207 points
HN discussionThey are not identical but do not preclude extensive reporting as is demonstrated by Craig Murray who single-handed has put the BBC to shame https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
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on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 14 as a story · 206 points
HN discussionI was trying to illustrate that he was exhibiting editorial discretion over a very bulk and voluminous material. That makes him an editor, on behalf of Wikileaks as the publisher. You might argue that an editor that didn't come from a journalistic background is not a journalist, but I think others feel differently. I'm pretty sure I read in the articles covering the hearings that some journalist organizations were c…
Comment linking /archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-10/
on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 7 as a story · 181 points
HN discussionI've been following the reporting from the witness testimonies and some of them detailed that a lot of work has went into editing (and supressing some of) the documents that he supposedly released without censoring names of assets. I posted these links previously in the thread but Daniel Ellsberg talks a bit about how this was handled: https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/16/pentagon-papers-ellsberg-... https://www.craig…
Comment linking /archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-11/
on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 3 as a story · 152 points
HN discussion> don't seem to realize that any journalist that publishes a leak that involves a government can be threatened with the same accusations the US is making against him. Some of the testimonies over the course of last week were exactly about this. How the US government didn't really try to prosecute US journalists for aiding sources to obtain classified material. See Craig Murray's[1] or Kevin Gosztola's reports on the…
Comment linking /archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-11/
on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 8 as a story · 142 points
HN discussionThis is a good question. Coverage of this trial has been hard to come by. Craig Murray is posting details to his blog but he's also not the most objective witness. Still, he wrote the following[0]: "Magistrate Baraitser then made a statement about access to the court by remote hearing, by which she meant online. She stated that a number of access details had been sent out by mistake by the court without her agreemen…
Comment linking /archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-the-assange-hearing-day-6/
on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four as a story · 131 points
HN discussionI am only lurking on this but Craig Murray (ex British diplomat) has a good blog following the daily ongoings on this trial. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/category/uncategoriz... It seems to be incredibly murky and quite frankly, pretty disturbing...
Comment linking /archives/category/uncategorized/
on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Assange Hearing Day 10 as a story · 126 points
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