21 h. ago ‘We can’t sit back and watch’: Former MI6 boss says Britain must get ready for war as Putin threatens Europe

Exclusive: As a Russia-Ukrainian ceasefire looks no closer, Sir Alex Younger tells The Independent how the UK is too detached from the threat posed by Putin – and that our ‘collective effort’ needs to change

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21 h. ago Voices: As former MI6 chief says the UK must be ready for war – should Britain bring back national service?

Have your say: As former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger warns Britain must revive national service to face global threats, the debate over military readiness intensifies

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48 h. ago Top secret Nuked Blood documents to be opened after campaigners demand access

Nearly one million pages of evidence about Britain's Cold War radiation experiments involving its own troops will finally be made public as a minister has ordered their release

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49 h. ago How I Am Maximus can add to the Grand National’s everlasting popularity

The 2024 winner can emulate Tiger Roll and Red Rum in defending his title but regardless of the result he’ll bring the one thing the Grand National truly thrives on

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66 h. ago Britain braces for Trump trade war as list of US products that could be hit with retaliatory tariffs is released

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says: ‘We will seek the views of UK stakeholders...on products that could potentially be included in any UK tariff response’

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4 d. ago Stranger than fiction MI5 tales revealed in first National Archives collaboration

From Guy Burgess’s briefcase to microdots secreted in talc, an exhibition reveals remarkable items from the agency’s archives – and the extraordinary stories behind themThe agency that would become MI5, originally known as the Secret Service Bureau, employed just 17 staff in 1914; by the end of the first world war, the number working for Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence agency had swelled to 850, including a number of female administrators.While valuable for managing the card index records, noted Edith Lomax, the controller of women staff in 1918, only women under the age of 30 should be recruited “on account of the very considerable strain that was thrown on [their] brains”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago War memorial will have names of soldiers who fought AGAINST Britain added to it alongside heroes

Council bosses are considering whether to add the names of five soldiers onto a war memorial - even though they fought against Britain and the Allies during the First World War.

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4 d. ago Police probe after swastika scratched into one of Britain's tallest war memorials

A hundred year old war memorial in North Staffordshire was vandalised this weekend

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4 d. ago Britain braced for worst from Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ trade war

White House crusade against imports could cost £1.1 trillion worldwide and 25,000 jobs in Britain alone, experts warn

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5 d. ago How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents | Zoe Williams

You can forget the advice on disguises, secret codes and spreading propaganda by dropping leaflets in train carriages. But there is something for us all here about the need for actionThe SOE Syllabus was a series of lectures given to prospective secret agents in Britain during the second world war. These “lessons in ungentlemanly warfare” were released from the top secret bit of the Public Record Office (now known as the National Archive) and published as a historical curio in 2001, when my esteemed colleague John Crace picked out the sillier bits in one of his Digested Read reviews. There was a whole lecture about how to craft a disguise, in which people with sticky-out ears were advised to use glue to pin them back.But now, 24 years later, I have picked up the book with a graver purpose – just on the off-chance that if we end up having to resist a fascist state, the past might have something to offer. They won’t know everything, these ungentlemanly gentlemen, being as they didn’t ...

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7 d. ago Inside Britain's secret gang war: How Bristol is fighting knife crime 'plague' as five teenage boys die in senseless tit for tat bloodshed

A horrifying knife crime epidemic in Bristol is tearing families apart as local gangs of schoolboys armed with zombie knives and machetes leave a trail of bloodshed behind.

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1 week ago Inside Britain's WEIRDEST neighbour row: How a man went to war with woman next door after she erected wooden boards in front of his windows to block sea views for bizarre reason

It is widely known as the greatest neighbour row of all time. When Max Jenkins paid £3,500 to move into his family home in sleepy Norfolk, with 'sea views', there was just one problem.

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2 w. ago Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England

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2 w. ago All the clues that Putin is behind the Heathrow fire: Intelligence expert NEIL BARNETT says we should treat the blaze as sabotage

The shooting may not have started yet, but let me tell you: Britain is already at war with Russia. When I saw the horrific images this morning from Heathrow Airport, I was immediately suspicious.

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2 w. ago Prep school hailed as Tatler's best in Britain four years ago becomes latest victim of Labour's war on private education as it announces closure over 'taxation pressures'

St Anselm's Prep School in Derbyshire was named Tatler's Prep School of the Year in 2021 and now has announced its closure following tax pressures from Labour's tax raid.

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2 w. ago Everyone who could AVOID WW3 army conscription if Britain goes to war with Russia

The last conscription in the UK was more than eight decades ago during World War 2 and, like back then, certain call-up exemptions would occur if another global war happened

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2 w. ago What WW3 could look like in Britain as MP warns 'you will be conscripted'

As veteran and MP Mike Martin warns Brits will 'obviously' be conscripted if WW3 breaks out, the Mirror examines what modern-day war could look like in Britain - from food rations to curfews

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3 w. ago How 'warmonger' Britain has become Russia's public enemy number one after Trump

The war of words has seen Russia's intelligence agency label Britain 'perfidious Albion', while top Kremlin officials have blamed Sir Keir Starmer for trying to derail efforts to broker peace in Ukraine.

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3 w. ago Threat of Russian missile attack on Britain is 'highest since Cold War' with fleet of Putin's rocket

Vladimir Putin 's fleet of rocket-laden submarines and warships off the coast of Norway are posing an acute threat to the UK, a study by a think tank called the Council on Geostrategy has found.

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3 w. ago Prince William announces major trip to NATO front line with Russia to visit troops

Prince William is set to head to Estonia next week in his role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Merican Regiment and will meet British troops stationed ready to defend NATO's eastern flank

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