MI5 alert on alleged Chinese mole may have been to distract from Partygate, tribunal hears
Ex-Labour MP Barry Gardiner told Christine Lee, who is bringing action against Security Service, of suggestion it was trying to shift attention from scandal
April 2024
Foreign states targeting sensitive research at UK universities, MI5 warns
Manchester Arena attack survivors and relatives take legal action against MI5
March 2024
Police chief who led Stakeknife inquiry condemns MI5 for stalling investigation
Victims’ families say Jon Boutcher’s report into British spy proves state and IRA were ‘co-conspirators’ in murder
Stakeknife: seven years and £40m later, how did inquiry fail to deliver justice?
Report into British agent in the IRA has not resulted in prosecutions but families hope it can at least shed light on his actions
For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought
Mark Hollingsworth
A document buried in the National Archives reveals how the security service abused its power to help the government win, says journalist and author Mark Hollingsworth
January 2024
Roy Battersby obituary
Radical TV director known for Leeds – United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker
December 2023
Margaret Thatcher privately scolded David Owen as MI5 spy scandal grew
Archives reveal confidential letters exchanged by the prime minister and SDP leader that shed light on a Kremlin espionage row
I’ve worked for decades to reveal the truth about the ‘Wilson plot’. But the cover-up continues
Richard Norton-Taylor
Files about alleged Soviet infiltration in MI5 and a plot centred on the former Labour PM are still missing, says author and former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor
Thatcher ‘utterly shattered’ by MI5 revelations in Spycatcher, files reveal
Kerry Packer was proposed as mediator in Thatcher’s fight to stop Spycatcher memoir
Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules
October 2023
Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee
Terrorists could try to exploit artificial intelligence, MI5 and FBI chiefs warn
US and UK spy chiefs warn Middle East crisis could raise domestic terror threat
20,000 Britons approached by Chinese agents on LinkedIn, says MI5 head
September 2023
The new queen of spy fiction: how Ava Glass went from murder reporting to the bestseller list
The author started out covering crime in the US before getting a close-up view of the British security services. She remembers her first dead body and a strange encounter with a fake friend
August 2023
Attack on energy network a major risk, UK register says for first time
UK spy agencies want to relax ‘burdensome’ laws on AI data use
June 2023
Intelligence service career informs former MI5 and MI6 man’s novel
David Bickford describes his posting to Berlin in 1979 and says his second book, Katya, draws on his experiences
