Andrew Defty
@adefty
Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Lincoln, UK. Parliament, the intelligence services, a little bit of social policy. Views are my own.
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My latest article on intelligence oversight in the U.K. out now in @IntelNatSecJnl focuses on the role of Ministers in providing accountability - ‘Familiar but not intimate’: Executive oversight of the UK intelligence and security agencies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
The #Spycops scandal exposes secret #Police units infiltrating and undermining hundreds of #Activist groups. This book offers the first academic account of what targeted #Activists experience and their ongoing fight for answers. ow.ly/Ft3k50XsQBH
It’s arrived! Thanks @Georgetown_UP and the people who helped me make The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA, incl Mark Stout, Don Jacobs, @Robert_Patman, @jmaiolo, @LawDavF, Chris Kinsey, @stephenWalt, @BeineckeLibrary, and many more!
Each year I get my Parliamentary Studies students to write questions as if for PMQs. When we look at them in class, in order to demonstrate bad questions I have to intersperse them with recents questions from real PMQs.
With Police and Crime Commissioners heading for the history books a good time to revisit my blogpost written following the first PCC elections in 2012 - Was the election of Police and Crime Commissioners the most expensive election in history? whorunsbritain.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2014/11/01/was…
Police and crime commissioners in England and Wales to be scrapped, government says bbc.in/4nRjwfS
I am abolishing Police and Crime Commissioners. For over a decade, they have overseen our police forces but have failed to provide the sufficient democratic oversight they were set up to do. A change that will save us millions and see money reinvested into frontline policing.…
A question in Parliament today, although sadly not much of an answer, about the worrying closure of courses @UniofNottingham
My latest forthcoming journal article with the Journal of Slavic Military Studies has been released online. Here is a free eprint link for the first lucky 50 of you tandfonline.com/eprint/YFM6EKN…
Worth adding that the best overview of the importance of law in intelligence liaison can be found in the ISC's report on International Partnerships from 2023 that shows the UK's legal obligations vs. liaison: isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/upl…
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal". cnn.com/2025/11/11/pol…
Exclusive--The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes they are illegal, sources tell CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/pol…
"The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, asked Mr. Patel to protect the job of an F.B.I. agent based in London who dealt with that technology... But the job had already been slated to disappear as the White House moved to slash the F.B.I." nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wor…
Opportunity - Research Associate in Parliamentary Studies at University of Sheffield, looks great. jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI384/res…
Documents show that for nearly two years Sheffield Hallam University complied with a demand from a Chinese Government foreign intelligence service to halt research about human rights abuses in China. Professor of Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery, Dr, Laura Murphy, has now…
The CIA secretly pumped funds into abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko, in an attempt to make American freedom and expression art popular in contrast to rigid Soviet art. osintdaily.blogspot.com/2021/12/cia-su… #CIA #popart #art #AbstractArt #Geopolitics #ColdWar
Each week I share with students on my intelligence module, Vigilant State, an artwork relating to that week’s topic. This week we were discussing intelligence analysis and I selected ‘Road to Baghdad’ (1996) by Elwyn Lynn from @AWMemorial #ArtofSpying
Every. Single. Time.
1) Send email to self 2) Hear new email noise 3) "Oh, who could that be?"
Continuing to collect artworks relating to intelligence. Struck by these from @AWMemorial ‘Imperial and Colonial Intelligence Officers’ (1901) by Norman Hardy and untitled portrait of a member of the Australian Intelligence Corps, Afghanistan (2013) by Campbell Myers #ArtofSpying
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