The UK government has moved quickly to prepare for the impending release of the Intelligence and Security Committee’s (ISC) report on Russian interference in UK politics. In effect, they have tried to mix two different stories and hope to escape in the confusion. On 16 July, the intelligence services of …
Conservative Party MP, Julian Lewis has been elected as head of the UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). This is the parliamentary body that monitors the UK intelligence services. However, he is not celebrating. As a result of his election, Lewis has been censured by the British government in a …
The wave of anger in the United States following the death of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers in Minnesota has presented interesting opportunities to certain intelligence agencies. As the rioting spread to more than twenty US cities, the mayor of Minnesota received a security briefing and …
Andrew Parker, outgoing Director-General of the UK’s MI5, has been giving interviews to carefully selected media contacts as he prepares to leave his post this month. Asked what he thought was the greatest change he has seen during his time at the service, he replied that it was the recruitment …
4 March: The BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera has published an article on the BBC News website evaluating the fallout from the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in March 2018. Corera points out that 23 Russian spies were expelled from the UK and that the Security Service was forced to …