I remember reading Ponting's book The Right To Know about the Belgrano. The obituary is interesting and mentions another expose he was involved with - a British move to develop bioweapons in which a trawler off the Hebrides was accidentally doused with plague bacteria. All files about this event were destroyed except for one.
"When he retired in 2004 he moved to a Greek island, but failing health drove him back first to a house in France, then to Kelso in the Scottish Borders, where he signed up with a surprised but pleased Scottish National party.
"Towards the end of his life, Ponting’s post-Brexit political views tended to be bleak. He wrote privately in 2018: “I can’t believe what is happening in the world – I suppose we were children of the 60s, but at least there was hope then. And now there’s very little.”
The UK needs more people like Ponting, with the current government in power and their unending lies.
Jack