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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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