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⁉️What does the UK press say about the agencies -- MI5, SIS and GCHQ? Stephen Ward and myself look at what they cover and question the idea of a "lobby". 🔓Article free to read and available in the latest edition of Intl Jrnl of Intelligence & CounterIntelligence Nottingham Politics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Effective Parliamentary Scrutiny of Foreign, Defence and Security Policy, Eliot Wilson bfpg.co.uk/2025/06/effect…

SIS's preceding headquarters, 54 (now 50) Broadway, a rabbit warren of rooms that the service occupied (until 1939) with GC&CS. By the 1960s, Broadway was judged to be "old and inconvenient" and "too small" for a modern-day service, resulting in the move to Century House.

History will soon be made, but who will have the honour of finally taking a sledgehammer to the glass ceiling that has been in place for the past 116 years? The wait continues...but just for a short while 👀

UK close to appointing first female head of MI6 ft.com/content/55bf78… via @ft

BBC News - MI5 misled watchdog about neo-Nazi spy case bbc.com/news/articles/…

Russian and Chinese state media outspend BBC telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

"The other two candidates in the final four were Jonathan Allen, director-general of defence and intelligence at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and another internal MI6 candidate".

US intelligence worker arrested for ‘trying to leak secrets to Germany’ thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Hiding in plain sight — how Russia’s cultural centers continue to operate in US, Europe despite espionage claims kyivindependent.com/cultural-diplo…

Trial date set for three Iranian nationals charged with spying offences independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Iranians accused of spying on British broadcaster go before U.K. court washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/…

📚 Book of the Week 📚  This week’s book travels back to the Cold War to document the risks and counterproductive results of UK and US intelligence efforts in post-colonial India. Read Dr. Dan Lomas’s review of Paul McGarr’s ‘Spying in south Asia’ 👇

‘No human hands’: NGA circulates AI-generated intel, director says breakingdefense.com/2025/06/no-hum…

Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China nytimes.com/2025/06/07/wor…

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Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial | Rendition | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

How The Times Obtained Secret Russian Intelligence Documents - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/06/07/wor…

BBC News - The Day Of The Jackal author Frederick Forsyth dies bbc.com/news/articles/…