Dr. Dan Lomas
@Sandbagger_01
Assistant Professor @NottsPolitics. Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence and the 'friends' 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
⁉️ What is UK national security vetting, and how has the current system evolved to meet insider threats? Really pleased to see this political, social, and cultural history of British vetting finally reach @BloomsburyBooks's website. 🗓 Out June 2025 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/secret-hist…
According to previously unseen highly SECRET files release today (22 Jul), in 1989, the UK Government began planning in the utmost secrecy for the mass evacuation of millions of people from Hong Kong ahead of handover to China. This was called 'The Armageddon Scenario'
Putin is stepping up ‘aggressive’ hybrid attacks on Germany, spy chief warns politico.eu/article/vladim…
Information that Pete Hegsteh shared in a Signal thread (with our editor) came from an e-mail marked SECRET. Aka "classified," which administration officials have insisted the information was not. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Scoop from @DanLamothe and @John_Hudson
The fact that the office of the director of national intelligence is putting out documents with titles like this is in itself a sign of a crisis within the American intelligence community.
Me, having written 150 words (which I'll probably delete tomorrow 😉)
Another conviction under the National Security Act. This is a clear warning to those seeking to offer their services to a foreign state — you will be caught and you will face the full force of the law.
Howard Phillips, 65, from Harlow in Essex has been convicted of engaging in conduct to assist Russia. Phillips leaked private info about the former Defence Secretary Sir Grant Shapps for money. We worked with @TerrorismPolice to secure this conviction: orlo.uk/Ud8HU
A veritable feast of summer reading recommendations, including two suggestions from me - one fictional and one nonfictional.
From @holland_tom to @hoyer_kat and @DrRadchenko, contributors to Engelsberg Ideas share the books they’ve enjoyed in the summers of their lives. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-summe…
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 23 July 2025. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of language: ow.ly/f6Ju50Wr4c5 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
The Intelligence and Security Committee will be conducting an inquiry into the Afghan data breach isc.independent.gov.uk
Tuesday ...
"I hope this email finds you well". How it finds me:
BBC News - British man guilty of trying to spy for Russia bbc.com/news/articles/…
American Tourists Arrested in St. Petersburg for Dancing Near FSB Building - The Moscow Times themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/22/ame…
Today we have released 200 digitised files from the Cabinet Office. Find out more and view the files for yourself here: nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/cab…
Check out @DDolzikova in a new documentary exploring the concerning dependence of Western nations on Russian uranium from Arte TV. RUSI's contribution to the documentary comes on the back of earlier work from Darya on tracing Russia's presence in global nuclear supply chains
This is the actual link: nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/cab… Annoyingly, it's just a list of file references (and the files are not catalogued yet), so you'll have to click on the CAB 164 links to see what the files are. The full list of PREM 49's are here: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=P…
85 years ago today, SOE was founded to “set Europe ablaze”, to kindle the spirit of resistance in Occupied Europe. Today, as SOE’s proud ancestor, #MI6 works to support brave Ukrainian resistance to Putin’s cruel and illegal invasion of their country. #SlavaUkraini.
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’ This is a real shame. The AHRC funded my doctoral work whilst I was at the University of Salford. Without that money, I wouldn't have started the journey and ended up in academia. timeshighereducation.com/news/student-l…
