UK security after Brexit
Yvette Cooper grills the Minister for Security, James Brokenshire, on UK security after Brexit.
Boris Johnson once outed MI6 spy ‘for a laugh’
Man responsible for Britain’s secret service accused of putting lives at risk
The allegations against MI6 are serious – so why aren’t they front page news?
Allegations against British security services pour in from Kenya, Nepal and Libya – but our media is too compliant to report them
Spy watchdog: Privacy breached ‘because of incompetence’
Britain’s intelligence agencies breached members of the public’s privacy on multiple occasions in 2013 because of incompetence, the intelligence services commissioner has revealed.
Tighter leash possible for Britain’s spies
Britain’s spies face the possibility of greater scrutiny if Labour wins the next general election, after a call for reform from Yvette Cooper
Ex-spy chief threatens Iraq ‘time-bomb’
Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has threatened to release his “time-bomb” memoirs on the so-called ‘dodgy dossier’ sooner rather than later.
Comment: Britain’s slippery spies deserve intense scrutiny
The murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last week, prompts up politicians’ agenda to pass a ‘snooper’s charter’.
Russian ‘spy’ allowed to stay in UK
The 26-year-old former lover of Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock has won her bid to be allowed to remain in Britain, despite MI5 allegations that she was a Russian spy.
MI6: Campbell was an ‘unguided missile’
MI6 viewed Alastair Campbell as an “unguided missile” during intelligence discussions which took place prior to the Iraq war.
MI6 chief distances Britain from torture claims
By Peter Wozniak The head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, has delivered the first public speech by a serving chief of the intelligence services, insisting that Britain plays no role in torturing terrorism suspects. Sir John, operationally known simply as ‘C’, also used the speech to journalists in Canary Wharf to defend the shroud of […]
