{"id":368407,"date":"2025-08-23T23:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368407\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:42:17","slug":"the-choices-facing-britains-next-mi6-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368407\/","title":{"rendered":"The choices facing Britain\u2019s next MI6 chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">IN THE EARLY 1990s, with the cold war over and the Russian threat seemingly gone, Sir Robert Fellowes, the private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, was lunching with Sir Gerry Warner, the deputy chief of MI6. \u201cWhat shall I tell Her Majesty her Secret Intelligence Service [SIS] is for?\u201d he asked. \u201cPlease tell her\u201d, replied Sir Gerry, \u201cit is the last penumbra of her Empire.\u201d Later that decade another MI6 officer described Britain\u2019s aspiration to global intelligence as \u201cthe itch after the amputation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IN THE EARLY 1990s, with the cold war over and the Russian threat seemingly gone, Sir Robert Fellowes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-368407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080734010621744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}