Beijing accuses MI6 of recruiting Chinese couple as spies
State security service says it has uncovered ‘major espionage case’ involving husband and wife
March 2024
Garrick revelations strike nerve given MI6 chief’s diversity push
‘Nothing in the language excludes admission of women’: KC issues opinion on Garrick Club rules
Head of civil service and MI6 chief resign Garrick membership
UK’s top civil servant and head of MI6 urged to quit Garrick Club
February 2024
Review of MI6 worker Gareth Williams’ death finds no new DNA evidence
Code-breaker was found dead inside a padlocked holdall at his London flat in 2010
January 2024
Mike Sadler obituary
Last original member of the SAS who used the stars to navigate across the north African desert during the second world war
December 2023
Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules
Miscarriage of justice watchdog reviews murder conviction of ex-MI6 informant
October 2023
Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee
Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri claim UK intelligence was ‘complicit in his ill-treatment’ by the US
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
Richard Osman ‘tapped on the shoulder’ at Cambridge by MI6 – but failed the test
Presenter and crime author says he interviewed for role of spy but ‘would have been terrible’
UK government’s refusal to confirm Skripal spy role is ‘surreal’, lawyers say
Michael Mansfield KC criticises argument for restriction orders before inquiry into 2018 novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess
August 2023
UK should finally acknowledge role in 1953 Iran coup, says David Owen
Former foreign secretary says doing so would benefit both reform movement in country and Britain’s credibility
‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup
Norman Darbyshire had a modest upbringing but had a knack for adaptation and languages that helped him to make influential contacts
UK spy agencies want to relax ‘burdensome’ laws on AI data use
GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 propose weakening safeguards that limit training of AI models with bulk personal datasets
July 2023
MI6 chief says China is supporting Russia in Ukraine – video
Moore said China had lent heavily in Moscow’s favour from the outset of the conflict
China complicit in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says MI6 chief
Sir Richard Moore says Xi Jinping’s regime has supported Vladimir Putin diplomatically and amplified ‘Russian tropes’ such as Nato being to blame
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Sunak refuses to rule out cabinet reshuffle on Friday amid Tory fears over byelection defeats – as it happened
Prime minister refuses to answer question on possible reshuffle
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
