Boris Johnson is facing demands for an investigation today over claims he intervened to help a Russian newspaper owner get a seat in the house of Lords. Security services said granting a peerage to Evgeny Lebedev, the owner of the Evening Standard
Licence to sell: Two first edition James Bond novels that Ian Fleming gave to HIS Miss Moneypenny – aka the woman who typed up his manuscripts – will go on sale for £60,000 Fleming presented copies of Goldfinger and From Russia from
KGB double agent living in North East where he still fears visit from Putin’s hitmen says West should have cracked down on Russia after novichok poisonings Victor Makarov attended the KGB spy school in the same year as Vladimir Putin He betrayed
Prince William made secret visit to MI6 on the eve of war in Ukraine: Duke met with intelligence officials as tensions with Russia approached boiling point Duke of Cambridge visited Secret Intelligence Service in London on Wednesday No extra details about who
Britain’s spies are being urged to consider their ‘white privilege’ and declare their pronouns as Europe descends into war. A leaked guide to improving diversity and inclusion in the security services suggests the agents should avoid gendered terms such as ‘manpower’. Spies are
A job advert for MI6’s new tech chief which appeared to suggest the spy organisation works against Britain’s interests has quietly been corrected today. The advert, for ‘Director General Q’, said when it was released yesterday that MI6 has the ability to
Whether its sports cars that turn into submarines, phones which electrocute people or bagpipe flame-throwers, everyone has their favourite James Bond spy gadget. Whilst the technology expert portrayed most famously by Desmond Llewelyn in the Bond franchise is of course fictional, now you
MI6 is using its secret agents to check the pollution levels of foreign countries to ensure they keep to their climate targets, its boss has today revealed. Depicted as a flashy all-action spy agency in the blockbuster James Bond films, the real
Sitting alone in our beautiful £3 million Georgian townhouse in Bath, I was watching TV one night when I heard an unfamiliar sound. I turned the volume down and listened acutely, but everything was quiet so I returned to Homeland, one of
MI6 has flown the transgender flag from its London headquarters for the first time to mark the Transgender Day of Visibility. Richard Moore, who is known as C for Controller, said trans and non-binary spies have helped make the secret service stronger.