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[Richard Moore @XChiefMI6]

I dreaded this news. So sad to get off a long flight and learn that my dear friend Alex Younger had died. Alex was the best of #MI6 - high intelligence, low ego, driven - beneath the affable exterior, deeply moral, kind, fun and irreverent. And an ace spy. RIP.

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@n_rh1992 @HasisD @LucyGoBag @HindsHelen @Rubonist That certainly underpins the need for Validation as part of the IEM cycle.

( when it actually arrives)
#SayDoGap

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@LucyGoBag @HindsHelen @HasisD @n_rh1992 @Rubonist
I have risk register questions.

[hundredfamilies @hundredfamilies]

For those at the back - it's not about prediction, it's about prevention

#Nottinghaminquiry

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

In these globally turbulent times one man has regularly acted as a wise, thoughtful and witty guide for listeners of @BBCr4today. The former Head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger has analysed, explained and contextualised the actions of Trump, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollahs. After he first appeared in the programme I was lucky enough to get to know Alex and call him my friend. I’m desperately sad to hear the news I’ve long feared was coming. Alex has died after months trying to cheat the
prognosis he was given whe. They discovered the tumour he nicknamed “Putin”.
We’re always told not to speak of a fight with cancer because it risks implying that only those strong enough survive. I understand that. I really do but sod it. Alex fought so hard to find a treatment to give him a little longer to be with Sarah and their lovely children. And he used every last minute of the short time he did have to be with family and friends and to do what he spent a lifetime in the shadows doing - using his intelligence to understand the world, to explain it but, above all, to keep us all safe.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger on Brexit: “Putin would have been absolutely delighted by our decision.”

“So would Xi. France has effectively eclipsed us. Brexit has marginalised us.” Most striking of all: “Just nobody mentions the UK.”

Very sad that Sir Alex Younger, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, born on July 4, 1963, died of pancreatic cancer on June 2, 2026, aged 62

[Cardinal Intelligence @Crdintelligence]

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[Mark Sedwill @marksedwill]

So very sad to have learnt of the untimely death of a great friend and colleague, Sir Alex Younger. We were at St Andrews University together, had parallel careers and retired together in autumn 2020. He was an outstanding national security leader. I will miss him terribly. Love and condolences to Sarah and the family.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger dies aged 62 https://t.co/UkW45MgHNx

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

"He will be remembered by the many Ministers, colleagues, friends, and family for his utmost dedication to British public life and protecting our nation".

https://t.co/PqFMD1Oz9C

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@sherlock_comms Policy is pretty transparent in such cases. https://t.co/GWJHOgpjBy

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@sherlock_comms Will @HeddluDeCymru also be monitoring anti-Saes * conversations?

*English

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS PATIENTS MAY BE DYING. THE HEALTH SECRETARY DECLINED TO COMMENT.

A senior clinician at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (@BHRUT_NHS) went to LBC with a very simple message: the Trust's new electronic patient record system is broken, nobody in management wants to hear about it, and people may already be dead because of it.

One patient with cancer and Covid died after a haematology referral simply never reached the right department. The system swallowed it. The clinician said they knew of incidents where patients came to harm. They said it is keeping them up at night. Staff are in tears.

Appointments are wasted. Results go missing. The trust told LBC it has "no evidence" the IT system contributed to any deaths. Which is a great thing to say when your IT system is apparently very good at losing evidence.

A patient at King George Hospital waited nearly two months for biopsy results on a breast change. When they finally got through, they were told delays were because of a new IT system "no one knew how to use." Nobody called them. Nobody reassured them. Two months of silence while they sat at home wondering.

Clinical negligence solicitor Sanja Strkljevic from Leigh Day said the claims were "really quite shocking" and suggested the scale of the situation could justify a full inquiry.

The Trust's constituency MP was Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting), the former Health Secretary, the man who said NHS reform was his personal mission and that his head would be on the chopping block if things didn't improve. He declined to comment.

He has since resigned from the cabinet entirely.

Whistleblowers do not speak to the press for fun. They do it because they have run out of other options.

Source: @LBC

https://t.co/AS6jmWCFss

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@CtgIntelligence @Advent_IM_Dir @SecurityRollo @WH_Y @DesignSecultd @Coffee_Fueled @OptimalRisk @NeilCattermull @PhilipIngMBE @cybergeekgirl @SonOfSunTzu @ErichKron @DGelici @AnguaSec @AceKrish @CroodSolutions Sadly I have a prior appointment.

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@emergencymii @RBlackPA @CtgIntelligence
ICYMI

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

Here is the map of data centres in Ireland - over 130 of them.

Data centres now consume 22% of Ireland’s electricity

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine.

There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs.

Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

ICYMI
More on #FoodSecurity

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

1/2 @NatPrepCom @LordTobySays @RachelReevesMP @LucyGoBag @CarolynOtley @DanJarvisMBE @HasisD @ProfPaulBehrens @cabinetofficeuk @NFUtweets @n_rh1992 @DefraGovUK
Integrated Emergency Management has been around for over 40 years should mean alignment between departments of state.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@Sandbagger_01 @BUCSIS2 @RBlackPA @haynesdeborah @larisamlbrown @JimGamble_INEQE @UKRinIRL @siralexyounger @FrankRGardner @gordoncorera @KeirGiles @MarkGaleotti @BfV_Bund
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#HT @TomTuite1 via @emin_bred

[Emin Bred @emin_bred]

An employee of a government institution in Ireland has been accused of passing classified information to a foreign intelligence service. https://t.co/rBq6XVYICv

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

@HasisD @LucyGoBag 747?

Luxury !

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

Liking the depth of this analysis by @aviatrixtrc of the Iranian attack of @StrykerEC back in March.
Have not seen anything to suggest p/t facing devices were directly vulnerable.

[Aviatrix Threat Research Center @aviatrixtrc]

TRC analysis shows Handala actors wiped 200,000+ systems at Stryker after moving laterally from initial public-facing app exploits. The Iranian-linked group exfiltrated 50TB of data before deploying destructive malware. Runtime segmentation could have limited blast radius across the medical giant's global network. #ThreatIntel

🔗 Full TRC analysis: https://t.co/nCTeo7qJCA

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

2/2 https://t.co/Jxdlz6oAWl

[Security Analyst @ SRSRM @Selyst]

1/2 Yesterday a small number came together in London to toast the immortal memory of the brave Czech parachutists involved in Operation ANTHROPOID 84 years ago.
Thanks to @PaulBasson9
Cc @CZinLondon @SOEhistory @SOE_Spirit