Pressure is growing on David Cameron to explain why Andy Coulson was spared the government's top security checks, as it emerged his successor is being given a higher clearance than he had while at Downing Street.

In its attempt to withstand growing pressure to make the security and intelligence agencies more accountable, the Whitehall establishment came up with a very British proposal. It was very British because it was designed to avoid confrontation and sound much more significant than it actually was. The plan was for a cross-party parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, the ISC, with members...

The pressure on the Government to investigate fresh allegations of complicity by British security officials in the torture of terror suspects intensified yesterday after MPs from all parties called for an inquiry into the claims.

I know that data security has been a hot potato with Government in the last year or so, but another asepct of security that needs to be remembered is that of physical access by security pass right? Of ocurse, security passes, even in the private sector, get lost, or might be stolen when they're in a wallet etc. Interestingly, most of the departments that have responded to questions on this matter ...

Asked whether military action would be on the agenda at the UN Security Council meeting, the PMS said that the Foreign Secretary had made clear in the past that that was not really where the debate was in relation to Zimbabwe. The purpose of the UN Security Council meeting on Monday was to ensure that Zimbabwe did remain very much a focus of international attention and to ensure that pressure cont...

Pressure is growing on David Cameron to explain why Andy Coulson was spared the government's top security checks, as it emerged his successor is being given a higher clearance than he had while at Downing Street.

Pressure mounted on the government yesterday to hold an independent inquiry into allegations of British complicity in torture. Human rights organisations and opposition politicians welcomed the publication of a report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights that branded the government's accountability on security and intelligence issues "woefully deficient".

Ministers were under severe pressure last night to launch judicial and police inquiries into the conduct of MI5 officers in light of damning new allegations they colluded in the torture of Binyam Mohamed, the UK resident imprisoned in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan before being flown to Guantánamo Bay. MI5 telegrams to the CIA show security service officers fed the US with informatio...

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Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the 'security state' the country's top prosecutor has warned.