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UK Government defends blocking ID of MI5 agent accused of abusing girlfriend

THE Attorney General has defended efforts to block the identification of an MI5 agent said to have exploited his status to terrorise and attack his…

The National (Scotland)

The Guardian view on the ‘spy cops’ inquiry: not enough answers

The women deceived by police, and other activists who were spied on, are denied justice by a process that is so drawn out

The Guardian - UK

Grief, anger, and a sense of betrayal - the feelings that haunt the Manchester Arena families, five years after we lost the 22

The fifth anniversary of the May 2017 outrage has marked an important shift - the anger once aimed at the bomber is now directed towards the police and security services

Manchester Evening News

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Woman ‘abused’ by MI5 agent takes legal action against service

Man with background in rightwing extremism accused of attacking woman with machete and threatening to kill her

The Guardian - UK

Woman ‘abused by violent MI5 agent’ launches legal action against security services

Demands come after the BBC report revealed man attacked his girlfriend with a machete and threatened to kill her

The Independent UK

MI5 agent ‘abused and threatened’ ex-partner, BBC investigation reveals

Story made public after an attempt by the attorney general to gain an injunction to prevent broadcast

The Guardian - UK

BBC reports on MI5 spy who ‘used status to abuse girlfriend’ after ruling

The BBC has reported on the story for the first time since an unprecedented legal battle in which the Government sought an injunction.

The Independent UK

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BBC to air MI5 agent investigation following High Court ruling

The corporation said the story is ‘firmly in the public interest’ and will run in the coming days.

The Independent UK

‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles

Ken McCallum, the director general of M15, said malicious profiles were being used on an ‘industrial scale’

The Guardian - UK

MI5 chief Ken McCallum: Foreign spies are targeting officials online

The agency boss said MI5 had seen more than 10,000 ‘disguised approaches’ from spies to people in the UK on networking sites.

The Independent UK

Terrorism in the UK: the rising threat of far-right extremists

Since 2017, counter-terrorism forces have foiled 32 plots: 18 were Islamist related, and 12 were from the extreme right wing

The Guardian - UK

Scale of police spying on UK leftist party was ‘Orwellian’, inquiry hears

Dozens of officers infiltrated Socialist Workers party for decades, recording personal details of members

The Guardian - UK

‘Operation Mincemeat’ review: How Colin Firth and company faked an invasion and helped win WWII, now on Netflix

With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “Hacksaw Ridge,” you know a director (in that case Mel Gibson) will be operating with a cinematic license to slaughter.

Chicago Tribune

‘Growing’ threat of foreign state interference in British politics

Security sources have warned that the case of suspected Chinese spy Christine Lee targeting MPs is not a ‘one-off’.

The Independent UK

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Tribune News Service

Review: 'Bad Actors,' by Mick Herron

FICTION: The eighth novel in Mick Herron's entertaining Slough House series involves sleuths, Russians, lost souls and tyrants.

Reuters

UK to reform spy laws to tackle threats from cyber and state influence

Britain will overhaul its espionage laws in the face of threats to national security ranging from cyber-attacks to pernicious lobbying that could undermine its economy, the country's interior minister said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

MI5 asked police to spy on political activities of children, inquiry hears

Schoolchildren as young as 14 targeted in 1975 for links to ‘subversive’ anti-fascist and socialist organisations

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The Guardian - UK

Tories ‘bending the rules’ after missing deadline for publishing Lebedev advice

Not releasing MI5 advice on granting peerage makes government look like it has something to hide, Labour says

Daily Mirror

Chinese agents use drones to spy on UK nuclear bases, defence chiefs warn

The Sunday People uncovered the details under a Freedom of Information request which revealed 18 drone sightings at military sights in just two years - between 2019 and 2021

The Guardian - UK

Evgeny Lebedev’s nomination for peerage ‘paused’ after MI5 advice

Appointments commission raised security concerns in 2020 but felt ‘bounced’ into approving him because No 10 pressed for it

Daily Mirror

'My father's dead body ruse sent Adolf Hitler on the road to defeat during WW2'

Jennifer Montagu, the daughter of intelligence officer Ewan Montagu, who was behind Operation Mincemeat, remembers how she was the first person he told when finally cleared to reveal details

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve killed him’: David Amess murder was last act of two-year plot

Ali Harbi Ali had long been looking for an MP to assassinate before stabbing Amess at church surgery

Manchester Evening News

Martyn Hett's dad tells of the moment his "world fell apart" in new documentary about the Manchester Arena bombing

Martyn Hett's father speaks movingly in a new documentary series ahead of the atrocity's fifth anniversary

Manchester Evening News

Attorney General wins bid to block BBC identifying 'MI5 informant'

Suelle Braverman sough the injunction to prevent the BBC from identifying the person known only as X

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