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    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Political espionage
      UK arrests part of wider western moves to disrupt Russian spy networks

      Investigation under Official Secrets Act against five Bulgarian nationals ongoing

      Bizer Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      MI6 head calls on Russians to spy for UK

      Secret service chief says some who oppose the war in Ukraine have already joined up

      Sir Richard Moore
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Helen Warrell
      Why GCHQ’s first female director matters

      Women have a proven aptitude for codebreaking but after the second world war they were mostly overlooked

      Black and white photo of women codebreakers sitting at a long table with a man standing next to them
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      ObituaryFreddie Scappaticci
      Freddie Scappaticci, suspected IRA informer, circa 1946-2023

      The agent known as Stakeknife was described as the British army’s ‘most important secret’

      A middle-aged man in T-shirt and blue cardigan stands outside an office block
    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      UK defence
      UK’s cyber spy agency offers rare insights into its activities

      Head of covert unit conducting ‘daily’ hacking operations named for the first time

      James Babbage
    • 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

      A woman views Westminster and the Big Ben across the Thames
    • 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

      Actors Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce dressed in 1960s clothing, speaking in an outdoor setting with a building’s rooftop in the background
    • 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

      Ben Wishaw as Q, the British Secret Service quartermaster, in ‘Spectre’
    • 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

      Evgeny Lebedev, left, at a function with Boris Johnson.
    • 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

      Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in ‘No Time to Die’. The benefits of Bond for Britain’s soft power, and the image of its spies as skilled, respected and omnipotent, is still a net positive
    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      #techFT
      Bond needs more than Q in AI age

      AI casino delay, Grab’s Nasdaq debut, Jack Dorsey and the Blockheads

    • 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

      MI6 chief Richard Moore
    • 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

      The Cheltenham base of GCHQ
    • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
      UK politics
      PM looks to defend UK role in Kabul withdrawal

      Commons will be told Johnson intends to use ‘every lever’ to protect Britain from harm and help Afghan people

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      ReviewThriller books
      Genre round-up — the best new thrillers

      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

      Like all cyber security issues, ransomware attacks are not so much a technology problem as a human problem
    • 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

      British intelligence services can no longer provide assurances that Chinese-made equipment is safe to use in the UK’s telecoms network
    • 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

      LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 17: A man walks over Vauxhall Bridge towards the MI6 headquarters on August 17, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    • Monday, 13 January, 2020
      InterviewSecurity Service UK
      MI5 chief sees tech as biggest challenge and opportunity

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

      10/01/2020 Sir Andrew Parker, Director General of MI5. Photographed in his office this afternoon.
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