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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Balfour Beatty sacked from MI6 refurbishment contract

    Sensitive floor plans showing security measures and internal details at HQ had gone missing

  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2019
    InterviewHuawei Technologies
    US warns Boris Johnson over Huawei risks to UK citizens’ secrets

    Trump’s national security adviser steps up pressure as UK nears decision on China’s Huawei

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    Boris Johnson
    Johnson refutes reports he was denied secret intelligence

    Concern over former foreign secretary came from May’s inner circle at No 10

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    Political espionage
    US intelligence threats to Britain ‘not realistic’, say spies

    Co-operation for 75 years more important than ‘hamfisted’ warnings

  • Friday, 24 May, 2019
    Political espionage
    New UK spying code rules out rendition of terror suspects

    Move follows concerns over links to torture of detainees by foreign security services

  • Thursday, 23 May, 2019
    FT Magazine
    Inside GCHQ: the art of spying in the digital age

    Britain’s biggest intelligence service is rethinking its mission — and recruitment strategy

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    GCHQ reveals location of old central London HQ

    Building opposite St James’s Park station has been sold for development

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