Dan Lomas

Nov 13, 2024 | engelsbergideas.com | Dan Lomas

Last month, Apple TV+ announced a sixth series of the critically acclaimed, and highly popular, spy series Slow Horses. Since its first screening in April 2022, the show, based on the novels by Mick Herron, has captivated audiences with its darkly comic portrayal of misfits from the UK’s Security Service (MI5) based in Slough House, under the leadership of Jackson Lamb, played by the brilliant Gary Oldman.

Sep 11, 2024 | engelsbergideas.com | Dan Lomas

The international order is ‘under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War’ ,the heads of the CIA and SIS (or MI6) warned at the weekend. In a joint letter, published in the Financial Times, Bill Burns, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Richard Moore, Chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, stressed the importance of collaboration on mutual threats at a time when the dangers of the past are now exacerbated by technology.

Jun 5, 2024 | rusi.org | Dan Lomas

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Mar 13, 2024 | rusi.org | Dan Lomas

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Nov 6, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Rory Cormac |Dan Lomas

Access to material that was once classified is self-evidently fundamental to intelligence historians. How that material enters the public domain, and the way it is presented, inevitably shapes our understanding of the past. States obviously – and for good reason – do not want to declassify material that will put them at security risk or give advantage to adversaries; those declassifying material must balance the public interest carefully.