Dr. Dan Lomas
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/dan…
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- "I hear you're a vetting expert now, Father!"
- BBC News - Two arrested over attempted sabotage of German naval vessels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Dr. Dan LomasEXCLUSIVE: EU wants defence data secured without US tech
- SOE's advice on disguising yourself as a student in 1944. These days it'd be mullet, naff moustache and overly baggy trousers.
- Reposted by Dr. Dan LomasNew post out: "How MI6 works" We interviewed Richard Moore the man who was "C" - Chief of MI6 - until September. In part one we talked about MI6 operates - how does C work with the Prime Minister? Does he think there's a "deep state" etc... (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
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- Murder and MI5: How an extraordinary battle erupted over what the state keeps secret www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Finnish Military Intelligence Review 2026 has been published puolustusvoimat.fi/en/-/finnish...
- 🎬 Watched the film "Number 24", a Netflix film on the wartime career of Norwegian resistance leader Gunnar Sønsteby. Excellent depiction of life under occupation in #WW2, the issue of collaboration/resistance and the wartime legacy - plus there's a Radiohead track, too.
- Future Fives Eyes conferences like
- More than 100 Britons suspected of spying for hostile states www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
- 🎶 This academic stuff leads me to some interesting places ...
- New China mega-embassy ‘not without risk’, says MI5 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- Harking back to a time when US-Danish relations aligned 😉
- Reposted by Dr. Dan LomasFor many European governments, Donald Trump’s threat of punitive tariffs against anyone who tries to stop him taking Greenland was the final straw in their failing relationship with the U.S. Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
- Under Patel, F.B.I. Scours Its Records to Discredit Trump Opponents www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
- France replaces US as main intelligence provider to Kyiv, Macron says kyivindependent.com/france-repla...
- "Physical access is only one part of the challenge. If anyone thinks that rejecting this proposal and moving the embassy to, say, Belgravia is the key to making London’s cable infrastructure safe then I have a London Bridge to sell them".
- China’s super-embassy no risk to UK, says cyber security expert www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- China’s super-embassy no risk to UK, says cyber security expert www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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- 👀 Agent reporting (known as a CX) from Sir Paul Dukes, codenamed ST 25, and the only SIS agent to be knighted for his services in Russia, from January 1919. Dukes was an important agent on Bolshevik political and military affairs, who later wrote about his experiences.
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- The Conservative Party now ...
- Russia expels British diplomat over spying accusations share.google/ZlMU2qZ9jkkQ...
- He concluded that his inability to predict an event that he compared in import to the French Revolution was not due to a lack of information, but from a failure to interpret the information correctly
- Responding to Russian Sabotage Financing www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
- IDF Givati Brigade soldier arrested, charged in suspected Iran espionage www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
- Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia - www.reuters.com/investigatio...
- Cyprus investigates ‘sinister’ death of Russian diplomat said to have been GRU spy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- US defence contractor arrested on charges of leaking classified material. share.google/ygzStlKmNmE9...
- U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
- Erm, it's called GCHQ
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- ‘Tehran’ Review: Israel vs. Iran, Retold as a Spy Thriller www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...
- Reposted by Dr. Dan Lomas'Most governments do not disclose offensive cyber operations. Boasting about capabilities is not the usual game' writes @lmhurel.bsky.social in the latest RUSI Commentary.
- NSA taps new second-in-command Tim Kosiba after months of uncertainty politi.co/49LOoL3
- Solidarity! Always great to spend months writing research grants for them to be rejected with no reasons given other than "peeps, we lack £££".
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- "Partisan differences described in previous reports were present in the 2023 and 2024 data and appear more deeply entrenched in public attitudes toward U.S. intelligence". www.lawfaremedia.org/article/publ...
- How Russia is using 'disposable agents' from Ukraine to sabotage Europe news.sky.com/story/how-ru...
- Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...
- Sweden detains ex-military IT consultant suspected of spying for Russia therecord.media/sweden-detai...
- Ex-U.S. Navy sailor sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for spying for China www.axios.com/2026/01/13/u...
- BBC News - Guantanamo detainee paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reshuffle at Ukraine’s Intelligence Agencies Draws Criticism www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
- While senior British officials warn the country has entered “a new era of threats,” they’re working to slash the workforce charged with countering those dangers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Richard, you ok hun?
- Former CIA director William Burns: ‘Imitating autocrats is not a winning formula’ www.ft.com/content/0f49...
- "A former head of France's foreign intelligence agency was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence Thursday for attempted extortion worth millions of euros". www.france24.com/en/live-news...
- Erm, it really doesn't. Trust me, bro. Trump’s Venezuela operation echoes the CIA’s Chile playbook www.ft.com/content/8791...
- 📚 My review of Mark Lowenthal's excellent study of the US intelligence community, Vigilance Is Not Enough, is available in the @iajournal.bsky.social journal. A comprehensive study of the the development of US intelligence - well worth a read. 🔗 academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...
