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...
🎬 Watched the film "Number 24", a Netflix film on the wartime career of Norwegian resistance leader Gunnar Sønsteby. Excellent depiction of life under occupation in #WW2, the issue of collaboration/resistance and the wartime legacy - plus there's a Radiohead track, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 AM
🎬 Watched the film "Number 24", a Netflix film on the wartime career of Norwegian resistance leader Gunnar Sønsteby. Excellent depiction of life under occupation in #WW2, the issue of collaboration/resistance and the wartime legacy - plus there's a Radiohead track, too.
Future Fives Eyes conferences like
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Future Fives Eyes conferences like
🎶 This academic stuff leads me to some interesting places ...
January 20, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🎶 This academic stuff leads me to some interesting places ...
Harking back to a time when US-Danish relations aligned 😉
January 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Harking back to a time when US-Danish relations aligned 😉
Reposted by Dr. Dan Lomas
For many European governments, Donald Trump’s threat of punitive tariffs against anyone who tries to stop him taking Greenland was the final straw in their failing relationship with the U.S.
Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
Trump’s Greenland threats push Europe toward divorcing America
With NATO thrown into question, some officials see the “coalition of the willing” as the basis for a new alliance without the U.S.
www.politico.eu
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 AM
For many European governments, Donald Trump’s threat of punitive tariffs against anyone who tries to stop him taking Greenland was the final straw in their failing relationship with the U.S.
Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
Under Patel, F.B.I. Scours Its Records to Discredit Trump Opponents
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
France replaces US as main intelligence provider to Kyiv, Macron says
kyivindependent.com/france-repla...
kyivindependent.com/france-repla...
France replaces US as main intelligence provider to Kyiv, Macron says
The change works to solve Kyiv's heavy dependence on the U.S. for military intelligence, which has been wielded as leverage against Ukraine by the Trump administration on several occasions.
kyivindependent.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:08 AM
France replaces US as main intelligence provider to Kyiv, Macron says
kyivindependent.com/france-repla...
kyivindependent.com/france-repla...
"Physical access is only one part of the challenge. If anyone thinks that rejecting this proposal and moving the embassy to, say, Belgravia is the key to making London’s cable infrastructure safe then I have a London Bridge to sell them".
January 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
"Physical access is only one part of the challenge. If anyone thinks that rejecting this proposal and moving the embassy to, say, Belgravia is the key to making London’s cable infrastructure safe then I have a London Bridge to sell them".
Reposted by Dr. Dan Lomas
I implore everyone to read Operation KRONSTADT by Harry Ferguson - deserves to be filmed. I couldn't put it down - flimsy motor boats with giant engines depositing spies near Petrograd, and also raiding the Kronstadt base. Dukes plays a big part
👀 Agent reporting (known as a CX) from Sir Paul Dukes, codenamed ST 25, and the only SIS agent to be knighted for his services in Russia, from January 1919. Dukes was an important agent on Bolshevik political and military affairs, who later wrote about his experiences.
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I implore everyone to read Operation KRONSTADT by Harry Ferguson - deserves to be filmed. I couldn't put it down - flimsy motor boats with giant engines depositing spies near Petrograd, and also raiding the Kronstadt base. Dukes plays a big part
👀 Agent reporting (known as a CX) from Sir Paul Dukes, codenamed ST 25, and the only SIS agent to be knighted for his services in Russia, from January 1919. Dukes was an important agent on Bolshevik political and military affairs, who later wrote about his experiences.
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
👀 Agent reporting (known as a CX) from Sir Paul Dukes, codenamed ST 25, and the only SIS agent to be knighted for his services in Russia, from January 1919. Dukes was an important agent on Bolshevik political and military affairs, who later wrote about his experiences.
Reposted by Dr. Dan Lomas
My copy has finally arrived. I'm told contributors' copies are on the way. Thanks again to @avramovok.bsky.social, all the contributors, and @lynneriennerpub.bsky.social.
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
My copy has finally arrived. I'm told contributors' copies are on the way. Thanks again to @avramovok.bsky.social, all the contributors, and @lynneriennerpub.bsky.social.
The Conservative Party now ...
January 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The Conservative Party now ...
Russia expels British diplomat over spying accusations share.google/ZlMU2qZ9jkkQ...
Russia expels British diplomat over spying accusations
Moscow threatens to respond decisively if Westminster ‘escalates the situation’
share.google
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Russia expels British diplomat over spying accusations share.google/ZlMU2qZ9jkkQ...
He concluded that his inability to predict an event that he compared in import to the French Revolution was not due to a lack of information, but from a failure to interpret the information correctly
January 15, 2026 at 7:46 AM
He concluded that his inability to predict an event that he compared in import to the French Revolution was not due to a lack of information, but from a failure to interpret the information correctly
IDF Givati Brigade soldier arrested, charged in suspected Iran espionage
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldier arrested, charged for Iran espionage | The Jerusalem Post
The soldier is alleged to have been in contact with Iranian intelligence forces since some time in July 2025, and to have carried out tasks for them in exchange for financial compensation.
www.jpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:20 AM
IDF Givati Brigade soldier arrested, charged in suspected Iran espionage
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia - www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia
Former loyalists to Bashar al-Assad who fled Syria after the dictator’s fall are funneling millions of dollars to tens of thousands of potential fighters.
www.reuters.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia - www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Cyprus investigates ‘sinister’ death of Russian diplomat said to have been GRU spy
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Cyprus investigates ‘sinister’ death of Russian diplomat said to have been GRU spy
Apparent suicide of Alexei Panov comes after disappearance of oligarch Vladislav Baumgertner and amid corruption scandal
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Cyprus investigates ‘sinister’ death of Russian diplomat said to have been GRU spy
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
US defence contractor arrested on charges of leaking classified material.
share.google/ygzStlKmNmE9...
share.google/ygzStlKmNmE9...
US defence contractor arrested on charges of leaking classified material
FBI searched home of Washington Post reporter as part of investigation in rare move by federal law enforcement
share.google
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 AM
US defence contractor arrested on charges of leaking classified material.
share.google/ygzStlKmNmE9...
share.google/ygzStlKmNmE9...
U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
Erm, it's called GCHQ
January 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Erm, it's called GCHQ
Reposted by Dr. Dan Lomas
📚 Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line
Great to see the new upcoming publication from @rorycormac.bsky.social featured in the
@observeruk.bsky.social's list of books to look out for in 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5ff8zwfm
Book details➡️ tinyurl.com/mrbvwjs8
Great to see the new upcoming publication from @rorycormac.bsky.social featured in the
@observeruk.bsky.social's list of books to look out for in 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5ff8zwfm
Book details➡️ tinyurl.com/mrbvwjs8
Nonfiction books to look out for in 2026
From George Michael to Jan Morris, and Lena Dunham to Francis Fukuyama, the year ahead is full of bold ideas and big personalities
tinyurl.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
📚 Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line
Great to see the new upcoming publication from @rorycormac.bsky.social featured in the
@observeruk.bsky.social's list of books to look out for in 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5ff8zwfm
Book details➡️ tinyurl.com/mrbvwjs8
Great to see the new upcoming publication from @rorycormac.bsky.social featured in the
@observeruk.bsky.social's list of books to look out for in 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5ff8zwfm
Book details➡️ tinyurl.com/mrbvwjs8