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Oct 31, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Rory Cormac
Rachel Reeves sounded triumphant as she delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. ‘Invest, invest, invest,’ the Chancellor said. She claimed hers was a Budget for growth and prosperity and, that most of all, it was a Budget to help working people. But the Office for Budget Responsibility – the body set up 14 years
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rory Cormac
Sabotage seems to be back with a bang – and if not with a bang, certainly with a lot of smoke. Incidents have come thick and fast since 2022 when someone – and it still is not clear who – sabotaged pipelines in the Baltic Sea to disable the flow of natural gas from Germany to Russia.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Rory Cormac
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rory Cormac
Our universities are not safe from the messy realities of spies and geopolitical competition. The most infamous Soviet spy ring in history – the Cambridge Five – was recruited from, obviously, Cambridge University, back in the 1930s. Kim Philby and co. went on to share all sorts of damaging secret information with Britain’s Cold War adversary.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Rory Cormac
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Rory Cormac How to stop China spying on our universities Linkedin Messenger Email Our universities are not safe from the messy realities of spies and geopolitical competition. The most infamous Soviet spy ring in history – the Cambridge Five – was recruited from, obviously, Cambridge University, back in the 1930s. Kim Philby and co. went on to share all sorts of damaging secret information with Britain’s Cold War adversary. There is an obvious...
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
timeshighereducation.com | Rory Cormac
The feeling of seeing your book in Waterstones is unforgettable for many scholars – especially if it reaches the hallowed table by the door. More than that, a crucial part of the job involves shaping understanding, engaging audiences and showcasing innovative research. It is what many of us are expected to be doing. Earlier this week, some academics feared all this could be a thing of the past. Academic Twitter went into one of its periodic venting modes.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Rory Cormac
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Rory Cormac Maxim Kuzminov’s death is a message to would-be Russian defectors Linkedin Messenger Email Maxim Kuzminov would surely have known that defecting from the Russian military comes with risks. In August last year, the 28-year-old Russian captain seized control of a helicopter and flew it across the border to eastern Ukraine. Doing what Kuzminov did can go two ways. Some make it out alive, and have a secret life abroad – albeit while...
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Stephen Long |Rory Cormac
AbstractStates have long engaged in covert action, often in conjunction with partners and/or formal allies. Yet existing histories often take a single-state approach, neglecting how dynamics between co-instigators shaped the case studies. This article draws on recently declassified archival material to examine the supposed ‘joint’ US-UK covert action in Albania, a formative and significant case study of the early Cold War.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Rory Cormac
Parliament’s intelligence watchdog is muzzled, neutered and sick.The Intelligence and Security committee, which oversees the UK intelligence community – MI5, MI6, GCHQ etc – released its annual report this week, and it makes for a sad read. The committee says it is ‘concerned’, ‘perplexed’ and ‘disappointed’ with the government.
