In Her Lotus Year, Shanghai-based historian Paul French writes that it was probably the “lascivious fabrication of someone in Special Branch or MI5”, disseminated in the 1930s to discredit her ...

British soldier Daniel Khalife has told a court he would never have been caught if he did not ring MI5 on himself. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty this week to escaping prison, but continues to ...

Suppressed MI5 files have revealed that the intelligence agency instructed notorious British agent Freddie Scappaticci via his military handlers. In 2003 west Belfast man Scappaticci, a former ...

Vladimir Putin has dismissed as "utter rubbish" claims by the UK's MI5 intelligence chief that Russia is aiming to cause chaos across Britain and Europe. Speaking on the closing day of the annual ...

Families of the Manchester Arena bomb victims claim MI5 chiefs are trying to “wriggle out of justice”. More than 250 people whose lives were devastated by the atrocity at the Ariana Grande ...

Khalife, a Royal Corps of Signals soldier at the time, made an anonymous call to the MI5 public reporting line in November 2021, admitting to being in contact with the foreign state for more than ...

Head of security service has warned that Moscow’s agents had been sent to whip up disorder Vladimir Putin dismissed as “complete nonsense” MI5 allegations that Russian agents want to spread ...

MI5 'lacked candour' when it gave evidence to the Manchester Arena bomb inquiry and other reviews of the atrocity, a lawyer representing families affected by the outrage has told a tribunal.

Daniel Khalife was reported to police by MI5 after telling them he had been spying for Iran and offered to work for them as a double agent, a court has heard. A police investigation was only ...

Vladimir Putin dismissed as “complete nonsense” MI5 allegations that Russian agents want to spread mayhem and chaos in British cities. Answering a question from the BBC at a press conference ...

Legal action against MI5 is the “next step” for vindication for scores of survivors and people bereaved by the Manchester Arena attack, a tribunal has been told. More than 200 people affected ...

A hardline republican at the centre of a bitter dissident feud has been charged with terror offences. Tony McDonnell is accused of assisting in arranging a meeting he ...