UK Puts Chagos Islands Deal on Hold to Avoid “Toxic Backlash”
Downing Street has delayed plans to hand over the Chagos Island to Mauritius, amid fears of a "toxic backlash" from Labour MPs over the cost of the multi-billion pound settlement.
Downing Street has delayed plans to hand over the Chagos Island to Mauritius, amid fears of a "toxic backlash" from Labour MPs over the cost of the multi-billion pound settlement.
Britain's offshore wind farms are a clear danger to vital air defences, with the Government forced to spend £1.5bn in the next two years to try to rescue the country's early warning radar network, says Chris Morrison.
Electric cars pose a potential threat to national security as they are vulnerable to Chinese spying, an official defence assessment by the Government's spy lab has warned.
Chinese businesses have provided funding or parts to at least 14 of the 50 UK offshore wind-farms currently in operation or late development. Ex-MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove warns this is a blatant security risk.
Two US Congressmen have proposed to ban China's DeepSeek AI from Government devices. The justification, as with TikTok, is to protect national security. Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks take a look at the implications.
Britain’s nuclear submarine engineers use software that was designed in Russia and Belarus, in contravention of Ministry of Defence rules.
The Chinese Government could bring Britain's roads to a standstill by remotely stopping Chinese-made electric cars, MPs have been warned.
Foreign state control of British news organisations is to be outlawed, in a move by Rishi Sunak to block the attempted UAE-takeover of the Telegraph.
Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, former State Department cyber supremo Mike Benz explains how the U.S. Deep State and NATO put censorship into overdrive after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Full transcript here.
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