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Slow Horses season five on Apple TV+ review: The silliest season yet — but is the fun finally over?

3/5 Season five of the Emmy award-winning spy series bursts through the starting gates, but ultimately fails to stick the landing

Evening Standard · Sep 16, 2025

MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist

Revelation relating to then Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, a ‘matter of grave concern’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2025

MI5 admits it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from ex-BBC journalist

Vincent Kearney complained to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

Evening Standard · Sep 15, 2025

Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year

August saw the death of Stella Rimington, the first female head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency

The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025

Iran betting Britain won’t pay for security as ‘reckless’ campaign pushes it to breaking point

The cheap trick that's breaking Britain.

We Got This Covered · Aug 11, 2025

Spy novelist Stella Rimington, the first female head of MI5, was a ‘true trailblazer’

Dame Stella Rimington, former director general of the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5, and author of several spy thrillers, has died this week, aged 90.

The Conversation · Aug 7, 2025

Remembering MI5’s first female director general and author Dame Stella Rimington

The former head of the British Intelligence service and author Stella Rimington was the first female (and publicly-named) MI5 chief, as well as the inspiration for Dame Judi Dench’s M in the James Bond films. She died aged 90.

Euronews · Aug 7, 2025

Stella Rimington, First Woman To Lead UK's MI5 Dies At 90

Stella Rimington, the first woman to head the UK's domestic secret service MI5, has died at the age of 90, the spy agency announced on Monday.

International Business Times · Aug 5, 2025

Stella Rimington, first female MI5 chief, dies aged 90

Former director general died on Sunday night ‘surrounded by her beloved family and dogs’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2025

Stella Rimington, Britain's first female MI5 spy chief, dies at 90

Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain's MI5, has died at the age of 90

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2025