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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.
The UK’s last inmate at Guantanamo Bay has finally been brought home – but the matter of Britain’s role in the War on Terror is by no means resolved.
New papers shed light on the aftermath of the dramatic flight of two of the notorious ‘Cambridge Spies’.
Two decades ago, MI5’s archives were surrounded by secrecy like that of the royal archives. There’s a reason this has changed.
Police and spies’ calls for more powers should fall on deaf ears until they have learned the letter of the law.
A powerful intelligence lobby made up of former defence ministers, police chiefs and intelligence commissioners has emerged in British politics, determined to push for greater powers and resources for…
A parliamentary inquiry has cleared MI5 of failing to prevent the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in May 2013. This despite the fact that his killers, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, were both subjects…
One method for safeguarding online anonymity is Tor, “the onion router”, whose name comes from its method of adding and stripping away encryption layer by layer as messages pass from one node to another…
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Reader in Journalism, City, 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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Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University
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Professor of Television Journalism, City, University of London
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer in the Dept of History & the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Digital Life, Bangor University
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Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Strategy and Defence, University of Exeter
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor in History, Bath Spa University
