Dr. Dan Lomas
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
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Dr. Dan Lomas
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social
· Nov 16
⁉️ 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 Bloomsbury's website.
🗓 Out June 2025
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/secret-hi...
Really pleased to see this political, social, and cultural history of British vetting finally reach Bloomsbury's website.
🗓 Out June 2025
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/secret-hi...
📚 New reading ...
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
📚 New reading ...
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"This very readable book discusses numerous pathologies that have afflicted the relationships between American intelligence agencies and the president, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the American people."
@markstout.bsky.social reviews "The Spy and the State" by Jeffrey P. Rogg.
@markstout.bsky.social reviews "The Spy and the State" by Jeffrey P. Rogg.
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Have Not Aged Well
A review of Jeffrey P. Rogg, “The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence” (Oxford University Press, 2025).
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"This very readable book discusses numerous pathologies that have afflicted the relationships between American intelligence agencies and the president, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the American people."
@markstout.bsky.social reviews "The Spy and the State" by Jeffrey P. Rogg.
@markstout.bsky.social reviews "The Spy and the State" by Jeffrey P. Rogg.
Moscow sentences Russian diplomat to 12 years for passing secrets to U.S. intelligence - www.reuters.com/world/russia...
Moscow sentences Russian diplomat to 12 years for passing secrets to U.S. intelligence
A Moscow court sentenced a former Russian diplomat to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony for selling secrets to U.S. intelligence while on a posting to the United States, the Federal Security...
www.reuters.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Moscow sentences Russian diplomat to 12 years for passing secrets to U.S. intelligence - www.reuters.com/world/russia...
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Here’s my holiday gift to my fellow intel nerds on this site: Working with the fine archivists at SUNY Albany, I’ve gotten Bill Casey‘s giant retrospective 1945 report on OSS ops in Germany digitized. Casey served as OSS ops chief in Europe during the war.
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Verification Required | M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives
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December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here’s my holiday gift to my fellow intel nerds on this site: Working with the fine archivists at SUNY Albany, I’ve gotten Bill Casey‘s giant retrospective 1945 report on OSS ops in Germany digitized. Casey served as OSS ops chief in Europe during the war.
archives.albany.edu/description/...
archives.albany.edu/description/...
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Well this is very generous and kind. Thanks @drichterova.bsky.social. So on trend it’s not even out yet! Thanks again for the advance read; I’m really looking forward to sharing it with everyone in the spring 😀
📖 Dr Daniela Richterova (@drichterova.bsky.social) recommends "Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line" by @rorycormac.bsky.social (2026).
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Well this is very generous and kind. Thanks @drichterova.bsky.social. So on trend it’s not even out yet! Thanks again for the advance read; I’m really looking forward to sharing it with everyone in the spring 😀
Me seeing battleships back on the agenda
December 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Me seeing battleships back on the agenda
👀 Brilliant temporary exhibition "Spies, Lies & Deception" at Imperial War Museum North, highlighting the history of SOE, MI5 and SIS. Really well curated and full of gadgets and spy paraphernalia.
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
👀 Brilliant temporary exhibition "Spies, Lies & Deception" at Imperial War Museum North, highlighting the history of SOE, MI5 and SIS. Really well curated and full of gadgets and spy paraphernalia.
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Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov is the third senior defense official to have been killed in such an attack since last December.
Russian General Killed by Car Bomb in Moscow - The Moscow Times
A Russian general was killed early Monday when a bomb detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, Russian law enforcement authorities said, making it the third such killing of a senior defense of...
www.themoscowtimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov is the third senior defense official to have been killed in such an attack since last December.
"To be completely upfront and honest about it, I never completed my PhD".
Erm, so why say you did? There must be plenty of walts out there
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Erm, so why say you did? There must be plenty of walts out there
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
King's Foundation chair and nominee peer admits 'misleading' doctorate claim
Dame Ann Limb tells the Sunday Times she did not complete a doctorate previously listed on her CV.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"To be completely upfront and honest about it, I never completed my PhD".
Erm, so why say you did? There must be plenty of walts out there
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Erm, so why say you did? There must be plenty of walts out there
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👀 New SIS Instagram post featuring Mansfield Cumming's diary.
Significant extracts of the diary appear in Alan Judd's excellent "Quest for C", published in 1999, and the service's authorised history by Keith Jeffery in 2010.
Significant extracts of the diary appear in Alan Judd's excellent "Quest for C", published in 1999, and the service's authorised history by Keith Jeffery in 2010.
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
👀 New SIS Instagram post featuring Mansfield Cumming's diary.
Significant extracts of the diary appear in Alan Judd's excellent "Quest for C", published in 1999, and the service's authorised history by Keith Jeffery in 2010.
Significant extracts of the diary appear in Alan Judd's excellent "Quest for C", published in 1999, and the service's authorised history by Keith Jeffery in 2010.
MI6 chief holds phone call with Russian spy boss www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
MI6 chief holds phone call with Russian spy boss
Blaise Metreweli spoke to Sergei Naryshkin for the first time in ‘rather lengthy’ conversation
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
MI6 chief holds phone call with Russian spy boss www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
"I hear you're a Special Operations Executive expert now, Father!"
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"I hear you're a Special Operations Executive expert now, Father!"
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A day after publication of the Intelligence & Security Committee’s latest report highlighting the worrying lack of oversight of parts of the intelligence community, the ISC chair issued the following statement about the lack of consultation or notification over recent reforms to defence intelligence
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A day after publication of the Intelligence & Security Committee’s latest report highlighting the worrying lack of oversight of parts of the intelligence community, the ISC chair issued the following statement about the lack of consultation or notification over recent reforms to defence intelligence
👀 Organisation of MI1(c)'s (MI6's) most productive train watching network in the First World War, La Dame Blanche (the White Lady), run via Rotterdam by Henry Landau. It was the "finest espionage organisation" offering material of "priceless value", Landau recalls.
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
👀 Organisation of MI1(c)'s (MI6's) most productive train watching network in the First World War, La Dame Blanche (the White Lady), run via Rotterdam by Henry Landau. It was the "finest espionage organisation" offering material of "priceless value", Landau recalls.
High-tech spyware seized aboard ship in France www.politico.eu/article/fran...
High-tech spyware seized aboard ship in France
PARIS ― French intelligence services are investigating a suspected foreign operation after high-tech spyware was seized aboard a ferry in Sète, southern France. “Individuals have tried to pen…
www.politico.eu
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
High-tech spyware seized aboard ship in France www.politico.eu/article/fran...
End of term vibes ...
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
End of term vibes ...
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MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.
Well, UK higher education might be in a sh*t place but at least there's free books 📚
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well, UK higher education might be in a sh*t place but at least there's free books 📚
The Intelligence & Security Committee's Annual Report 2023-2025 has just been released.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Intelligence & Security Committee's Annual Report 2023-2025 has just been released.
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"As we step into the future, the tools at our disposal will evolve. But what will always matter most is the human element".
Full text of Blaise Metreweli's first speech as "C"
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Full text of Blaise Metreweli's first speech as "C"
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Speech by Blaise Metreweli, Chief of SIS, 15 December 2025
Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being rewritten.
www.gov.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"As we step into the future, the tools at our disposal will evolve. But what will always matter most is the human element".
Full text of Blaise Metreweli's first speech as "C"
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Full text of Blaise Metreweli's first speech as "C"
www.gov.uk/government/s...
BBC News - MI6 'operating in a space between peace and war', new chief warns - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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MI6 'operating in a space between peace and war', new chief warns
The new head of Britain's overseas spy agency has warned about an interlocking web of security challenges.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
BBC News - MI6 'operating in a space between peace and war', new chief warns - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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"Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job, is expected to say the UK faces a new “age of uncertainty” where the rules of conflict are being rewritten, particularly in light of wider Kremlin aggression".
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat
Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threat
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job, is expected to say the UK faces a new “age of uncertainty” where the rules of conflict are being rewritten, particularly in light of wider Kremlin aggression".
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
