Category: UK security and counter-terrorism

UK national security adviser under pressure over wife’s comment on supporting Palestine Action

Author Sarah Helm, married to Jonathan Powell, wrote to back novelist Sally Rooney’s support of proscribed direct action groupThe UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell is under pressure to distance himself from a...

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Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?

Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remainIn his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service,...

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Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says

Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last yearExtremists holding anti-immigration opinions are becoming increasingly likely to consider carrying out...

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Security for high-profile public figures to be reviewed after Ann Widdecombe’s murder

Home secretary vows to defend against ‘threats from without and within that target our democracy’Security arrangements for high-profile public figures including politicians and members of the royal family are to be urgently...

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards ‘almost certainly’ behind RAF Fairford threats, says Burnham

UK to bring further sanctions against Tehran and IRGC after assessment Iran was likely to have coordinated incidentAndy Burnham said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were “almost certainly” behind threats to RAF...

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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisisZack Polanski will challenge Andy Burnham’s government to publish an unredacted version of an explosive report by...

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