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    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Exclusive: The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies

      For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      A Spy Among Friends, ITV review — Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis in a poised tale of betrayal

      The show explores Kim Philby’s defection from MI6 to the Soviet Union in the 1960s

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Oliver Lewis
      Even Bond would have to share his secrets in the world of AI spying

      New technology will revolutionise espionage, but the US and UK must work together to secure their intelligence advantage

    • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
      Evgeny Lebedev
      Labour calls for probe into peerage for Russian businessman

      Opposition party wants details of advice on Boris Johnson’s nomination of Evgeny Lebedev to House of Lords

    • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Killing Eve staggers to an end laden with identity crises

      Russia, religious awakening and eye-catching outfits are all in the mix as the thriller begins its fourth and final series

    • Monday, 20 December, 2021
      Helen Warrell
      The spies who struggle to love James Bond

      Despite his obvious failings, 007 highlights what the secret services are up against

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
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      Bond needs more than Q in AI age

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    • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
      MI6 chief warns of security threat from China ‘miscalculation’

      Richard Moore also raises concerns about Beijing’s ‘harvesting’ of data via surveillance technologies

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Cyber Security
      Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material

      Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears

    • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
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      Commons will be told Johnson intends to use ‘every lever’ to protect Britain from harm and help Afghan people

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
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      Contagion in the Arctic Circle; the hunt for a Russian mole; undercover in Hamburg; and a superpower conspiracy

    • Friday, 11 June, 2021
      Alex Younger
      Ransomware attacks must be stopped — here’s how

      From geopolitical action to preventing payment, states must come together to halt these criminal actors

    • Friday, 19 February, 2021
      MI6 chief apologises for historical ban on gay employees

      Richard Moore admits policy was ‘misguided’ in his first public statement as chief of UK’s foreign intelligence service

    • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
      National Archives
      MI5 sought warrant against exiled Philby to stifle Frost TV interview

      Whitehall feared former spy would discuss how the security service listened in on British Communist party’s HQ

    • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      Out of the shadows: Britain’s spy agencies in the modern world

      Two books look at the hard graft of gathering intelligence and our enduring fascination with spookery

    • Wednesday, 29 July, 2020
      MI6 names former ambassador to Turkey as new chief

      Diplomat Richard Moore to take over UK’s foreign intelligence service as focus shifts to fresh threats

    • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
      News in-depthUK Government
      UK establishment criticised for dropping the ball on Kremlin threat

      Russia report points to failings by ministers and spy agencies, and to election interference, illicit finance and cyber hostility

    • Sunday, 5 July, 2020
      John Sawers
      The UK should bar Huawei from its 5G network

      The west also needs to unite and stand firm against rising Chinese aggression

    • Friday, 7 February, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The State of Secrecy — spooks, hacks and Britain’s cosy spying culture

      Journalist Richard Norton-Taylor on the blunders and quirks of the British spy world

    • Monday, 13 January, 2020
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      MI5 chief sees tech as biggest challenge and opportunity

      Machine learning next step in gleaning information, says Andrew Parker as he leaves Security Service

    • Friday, 27 December, 2019
      Balfour Beatty sacked from MI6 refurbishment contract

      Sensitive floor plans showing security measures and internal details at HQ had gone missing

    • Tuesday, 24 December, 2019
      InterviewHuawei Technologies
      US warns Boris Johnson over Huawei risks to UK citizens’ secrets

      Trump’s national security adviser steps up pressure as UK nears decision on China’s Huawei

    • Friday, 5 July, 2019
      Boris Johnson
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    • Friday, 31 May, 2019
      Political espionage
      US intelligence threats to Britain ‘not realistic’, say spies

      Co-operation for 75 years more important than ‘hamfisted’ warnings

    • Friday, 24 May, 2019
      Political espionage
      New UK spying code rules out rendition of terror suspects

      Move follows concerns over links to torture of detainees by foreign security services

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