The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing’s provocations and human rights abuses, asks Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall ...

Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being ...

Front line is everywhere,’ says Blaise Metreweli, first female chief of UK's foreign spy service, adding that the country is operating in a space between peace and war. Read full speech.

WE are bombarded with Nato and MI5 and MI6 scaremongering on how the existence of the democracies of the West is threatened by Russia and China.

For the last fifteen years I have been speaking on specific security and civil liberties issues. I’ve always known that the drug war failed; even when I was on the inside, working with UK Customs, I ...

IRA spy Stakeknife was revealed to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who died in 2023. The major investigation into the state agent in the IRA known as Stakeknife has revealed MI5 had a bigger ...

The major investigation into the state agent in the IRA known as Stakeknife has revealed MI5 had a bigger role in his handling than previously claimed. The final report of Operation Kenova also said ...

MI5 has a “blind spot” when it comes to dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has said. The Chief ...

The speech is the latest in a series of warnings by Western defence and security authorities about the growing hybrid threat from states such as Russia, Iran and China. The new head of the UK’s ...

Nine-year investigation paints highly critical picture of agency’s handling of double agent Who was Stakeknife? MI5 mole at the heart of IRA Britain’s security services allowed a top agent inside the ...

The United Kingdom’s domestic intelligence agency MI5 protected an IRA double agent who committed murders during Northern Ireland’s Troubles and later avoided prosecution, a major investigation has ...