massive compromise for our security.” In the infamous Spycatcher affair in the mid-1980s, the Thatcher

The Government is seeking to keep secret its court battle with the BBC over plans by the broadcaster to allegedly identify a spy working overseas. Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, will apply on Wednesday for the hearings into its injunction to block publication to be held behind closed doors. The Government is expected to claim in court that the BBC report, should it be broadcast, would pose a “ risk to people’s lives.” The BBC insists that the news story is “ overwhelmingly in the public

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Beijing's communist newspaper the Global Times has attempted to lay the blame for the global pandemic on America over a year-and-a-half after the virus was detected.... The paper, which is an arm of People's Daily, the Communist Party's mouthpiece, said the Americans were" politicising the origin-tracing research" and putting scientists at the centre of a" political storm".In the piece, the Global Times cited research analysing antibodies in over 24, 000 blood samples across all 50 states from