Ken McCallum

Director General of MI5

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Given what we’ve actually seen in practice in the U.K. in recent years, that has not been anywhere near the level of capability.”
The protection of democracy — its institutions, its representatives, its principles — has never felt more vital.”
The spring saw a wave of arson and sabotage incidents targeting Jewish communities in the U.K. and other European countries,
There is no law of physics dictating that rising state threats will be accompanied by diminishing terrorist threats,
Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are, is capable of outthinking us.”
Iranian ambitions to come at harder targets, like military sites,

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