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#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.

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

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.