Honey traps are laid, cyber attacks are enacted and it seems MI5 have to rely upon Slough House to bail them out once again.
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Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.
An intelligence expert explains why the UK government is facing questions over the collapse of a trial.
Stella Rimington has died, aged 90. Her spy novels, written from her secret service experience, provide fascinating insights into a clandestine world.
The spies the MI5 don’t want but can’t get rid off are back and the threat level is high.
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
American intelligence has recognised there are four reasons why a ‘normal’ person might be convinced to spy.
Proposals to toughen the Official Secrets Act are the latest in a long history of efforts designed to prevent government embarrassment.
The former boss of British intelligence has lashed out at spy novelist John le Carré. The novelist is rather pleased.
Campaigners in the UK are pushing to protect privacy and make the security services more accountable.
Letters of apology are welcome but where is the official inquiry into claims of ill-treatment and rendition by Britain’s spies?
Claims that the Manchester Arena bombing could have been stopped are too simplistic.
Security guarantees are impossible, but too many dangerous individuals are falling through the cracks.
The security services have had eyes on many Labour MPs over the years.
History is littered with the debris of the all too often abusive relationship between the intelligence community and those in power.
UK diplomats are thoroughly briefed on the pitfalls that could trap them on overseas service.
The government is set to increase its use of punitive security measures against individuals it can’t bring to court.
By choosing to talk to MI5’s most outspoken press critics, the spy boss has made a very shrewd move.
Look back centuries ago and you’ll find the same obsessive secrecy, and the same justifications, as seen today.
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Reader in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor in History, Bath Spa University
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Professor of Technology & Society, Bangor University
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Strategy and Defence, University of Exeter
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Professor of Television Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Course Director, History, Coventry University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Media Arts and Technology, Southampton Solent University