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Axing Plan B will slow decline of Covid, but there is still ’cause for optimism’

Axing Plan B measures will slow the rate of decline of coronavirus cases, but there is “cautious optimism” the UK can continue to make good progress, a leading expert has said. Professor Mike Tildesley, from the University of Warwick and a member of ...

19 Jan 2022 at 18:25

Features

Column: Is loss of civil liberty the inevitable price of national security?

In a climate of mounting threats from extremists, how do the relevant agencies, and we as a society, balance national security with civil liberties? This was a dilemma that was explored in some detail at a number of talks during the recent MacGill ...

25 Jul 2024 at 19:33

Calls for meeting with Home Secretary over undercover policing inquiry ‘crisis’

Campaigners who were targeted by undercover police have called for an urgent meeting with the Home Secretary amid concerns a public inquiry into the issue is at crisis point. Members of groups including Police Spies Out of Lives, the Blacklist ...

09 Sept 2024 at 18:36

National News

Tánaiste tells Dáil he was 'never briefed' about alleged Russian spy in the Oireachtas

The Tánaiste and Minister for Defence has told the Dáil that he has never been briefed about allegations that there may be a Russian spy in the Oireachtas. Micheál Martin was responding to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín who raised the reports - ...

10 Oct 2024 at 15:28

Life

Dame Stella Rimington: TV spy dramas are unrealistic but they are fun

Dame Stella Rimington, the former first female director general of MI5 and reputedly the inspiration behind the female character of M played by Dame Judi Dench, is considering the depictions of spies in TV dramas and movies. She chuckles ...

04 Feb 2025 at 11:36

World

KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky who helped change course of Cold War dies aged 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died at the age of 86. He died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said ...

22 Mar 2025 at 16:22

UK sanctions Russian spies trying to ‘destabilise Europe’

The UK has sanctioned a string of Russian spies and hackers, accusing them of carrying out a campaign to “destabilise Europe”. Those sanctioned include a unit that targeted the daughter of Sergei Skripal years before Russian agents ...

18 Jul 2025 at 21:31

Six Bulgarians jailed for spying for Russia

Six Bulgarians have been jailed after being convicted of spying for Russia on an industrial scale. Ringleader Orlin Roussev, 47, who led the spy ring from a rundown guesthouse on the east coast of England, was sentenced to 10 ...

12 May 2025 at 19:55

Jury out in alleged Russian proxy spy ring trial

A jury has begun deliberating on verdicts in the trial of three Bulgarians accused of plotting to spy for Russia on British soil. Vanya Gaberova, 30, of Euston, her ex-boyfriend Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, of Acton, and ...

20 Feb 2025 at 13:00

Alleged spy ‘told friend to put far-right Ukrainian stickers on Jewish site’

An alleged Russian spy told her best friend to post “far-right extreme” Ukrainian stickers on a Jewish museum, a court has heard. Vanya Gaberova, 30, is accused of being part of a spy ring which targeted people and ...

07 Feb 2025 at 17:53

An anatomy of a spy ring – from lashes queen to ugly-but-charming Lothario

A lashes queen, an accomplished operative and their ugly-but-charming lover were among the players in one of the most sophisticated and wide-ranging Russian spy rings to be uncovered on British soil. – The alleged ...

07 Mar 2025 at 15:33

The ‘Indiana Jones’ spy treasure trove hidden in plain sight

A rundown former guesthouse on the east coast of England provided the perfect cover for the headquarters of a sophisticated Russian proxy spy ring. When counter-terrorism police in balaclavas burst into the ...

07 Mar 2025 at 15:43

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