Outputs (19)

The Foreign Office ‘Thought Police’: Foreign Office Security, the Security Department and the ‘Missing Diplomats’, 1940 – 1952 (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, C. J., & Lomas, D. (2023). The Foreign Office ‘Thought Police’: Foreign Office Security, the Security Department and the ‘Missing Diplomats’, 1940 – 1952. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 34(3), 433-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2023.2239638

The protection of diplomats, embassies and sensitive information has always been an important aspect of diplomacy. Today, security is an accepted norm of day-to-day diplomatic work, yet the importance of security in the UK Foreign Office was not al... Read More about The Foreign Office ‘Thought Police’: Foreign Office Security, the Security Department and the ‘Missing Diplomats’, 1940 – 1952.

#ForgetJamesBond : diversity, inclusion and the UK’s intelligence agencies (2021)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2021). #ForgetJamesBond : diversity, inclusion and the UK’s intelligence agencies. Intelligence and National Security, 36(7), 995-1017. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2021.1938370

Diversity and inclusivity remain top priorities for UK intelligence, having been much maligned for the largely white, male stereotype. The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) has published a number of reports suggesting that eve... Read More about #ForgetJamesBond : diversity, inclusion and the UK’s intelligence agencies.

Protecting the family spirit of the diplomatic service : the Foreign Office, security, and homosexuality, 1945–53 (2021)
Book Chapter
Lomas, D., & Murphy, C. (2021). Protecting the family spirit of the diplomatic service : the Foreign Office, security, and homosexuality, 1945–53. In D. Molinaro (Ed.), The Bridge in the Park: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counterintelligence. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press

Intelligence for security (2021)
Book Chapter
Lomas, D. (2021). Intelligence for security. In A. Masys (Ed.), Handbook of Security Science (1-17). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51761-2_38-1

The use of intelligence by states to improve decision making and per se national security has been commonplace. Intelligence – the collection, processing, analysis and sharing of information – has been seen as a state-based process, ensuring that dec... Read More about Intelligence for security.

Written evidence to the National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) on National Security Machinery, NSM0021. Published 27 April 2021. (2021)
Other
Lomas, D. (2021). Written evidence to the National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) on National Security Machinery, NSM0021. Published 27 April 2021

Chinese spies : from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping (2021)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2021). Chinese spies : from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 32(1), 210-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2021.1883872

Book review of Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot, London, Hurst, 2019, 568 pp., £30.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-1787380967

Diplomacy and intelligence (2021)
Book Chapter
Lomas, D. (2021). Diplomacy and intelligence. In J. Spence, C. Yorke, & A. Masser (Eds.), New perspectives on diplomacy : a new theory and practice of diplomacy (55-76). I.B. Tauris

Party politics and intelligence : the Labour Party, British intelligence and oversight, 1979-1994 (2021)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2021). Party politics and intelligence : the Labour Party, British intelligence and oversight, 1979-1994. Intelligence and National Security, 36(3), 410-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2021.1874102

For much of the 20th Century, intelligence and security was a taboo subject for Parliamentarians. While Labour backbenchers had suspicions of the secret state, there was a long-held bipartisan consensus that debates on intelligence were ‘dangerous an... Read More about Party politics and intelligence : the Labour Party, British intelligence and oversight, 1979-1994.

Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981 (2020)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2020). Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981. Intelligence and National Security, 35(5), 734-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1740387

This research note introduces the December 1981 report of the Security Commission. This report was never released with the main conclusions forming the basis of a statement by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, published in May 1982. But the 1981 repo... Read More about Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981.

‘Hello, world’ : GCHQ, Twitter and social media engagement (2020)
Journal Article
McLoughlin, L., Ward, S., & Lomas, D. (2020). ‘Hello, world’ : GCHQ, Twitter and social media engagement. Intelligence and National Security, 35(2), 233-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1713434

In May 2016, Britain’s signals intelligence agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) joined the social media platform Twitter with the message ‘Hello, world’. For an agency once seen as the UK’s ‘most secret’, GCHQ’s moved to social m... Read More about ‘Hello, world’ : GCHQ, Twitter and social media engagement.