The Latest Breaking News from GCHQ

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

The woman in charge of the secure communication channel remains implacably opposed to the ‘disease’ of surveillance – and concerned about the sharing of personal data

Code-breaker was found dead inside a padlocked holdall at his London flat in 2010

The GCHQ dispute has a special place in labour movement history, says the TUC.

Code breakers.

Sir David Omand tells parliamentary inquiry the platform should be restricted to ‘background mood music’

I don't know what a coup d'état in Britain would look like. Presumably, the belligerents would simultaneously seize Whitehall/Parliament, the BBC and GCHQ amongst other institutions.

The agency has said that this year's challenge is their hardest yet

GCHQ chief said it was the ‘trickiest’ annual Christmas quiz ever aimed at secondary school children