To me the issue is not security agencies use Pegasus, but foreign security agents physically assault British citizen in London, MI6 does bugger all.

I’m not sure what I want from our security services, but security sounds good.

Also I wonder if there is a background level of foreign agent activity they accept and how is that related to the police’s paradox of using confidential informants

> if there is a background level of foreign agent activity they accept

Yup, there's constantly a number of known spies in pretty much all countries. If all were ejected, the other country would do the same to their spies and monitoring compliance with projects would become harder - so it seems in everyone's interest to not be too strict. See for example https://johnsontr.github.io/assets/files/spies_current.pdf

Also there's the idea of "the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" which generalises to lots of things - including this one.

It is London - hardly surprising.

Nothing will improve as long as Khan is Mayor, and may not even if he is replaced.

Anyway, MI6 (SIS) is the overseas spies, MI5 is the domestic spy agency.

Yes, it totally makes sense to blame Khan for what foreign intelligence services are doing in London. This is completely reasonable.

Someone being beaten up on the streets is domestic policing issue.

That the perpetrators may turn out to be foreign agents is neither here nor there, only if they were diplomatic staff would it not be a domestic policing issue. However the UK police have largely withdrawn from certain areas, and this would simply be another symptom.

High Court action suggests there was a civil case pursuing the perpetrators (or their principals), rather than a criminal case. With a properly functioning police system, that should not be necessary.

Kahn is the PCC for London, he sets their priorities.

Doesn’t matter if it’s people being poisoned with polonium or getting beaten up, preventing the activities of foreign intelligence services is generally not the job of the PCC.

It is the job of the British intelligence services to blow someone up in Riyadh to deter these activities.

Say you were the Mayor of London, and being a great mayor you have your priorities 100% correct.

Can you guarantee that something like this will never happen on your watch?

London just had the lowest annual murders for 11 years.

>Homicide rate now 1.1 per 100,000 people, lower than any other UK city and major global cities including New York (2.8), Berlin (3.2) and Toronto (1.6)

I guess you'll praise Khan, as PCC, for that?

Not within a mayor’s control

At least he is still alive, unlike Jamal Khashoggi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi

Yet.

Sooner or later all saudis living abroad will need to go to the embassy and the UK is especially bad at protecting the lives of foreign "dissidents".

I think the other intelligence agencies call it the MI5 special.

Unfortunately insertrandomcrititicaljournalistnamehere flipped and tried to pull a gun inside the Saudi embassy, fortunately our security forces were able to neutralize the terrorist immediately before he could cause any harm, here is the once discharged weapon with his fingerprints, and here the video and audio evidence that we promise is totally not generated by AI.

He totally had an extra finger on each hand to pull the trigger, Bin Salami Pinky promise.

The body? Sorry that has already been brought back to Saudi Arabia on explicit wishes of his family. See we have it written and signed here, don’t mind the tears and blood splatters next to the ink, his parents had an unfortunate event of spontaneous nosebleeding, but we took good care of that.

https://time.com/5725041/uk-russian-assassins-heidi-blake/

You really think the UK will not look the other way again for a journalist after he unfortunately tripped and fell into the royal bonesaw?

Must be very frustrating for MI6 to even tip their own people off and get met with Boris Johnson level incompetence 90% of the time.

If you want to flee your country for political reasons and wish to continue living, don’t go to the UK, Germany, the US or Russia.

> Yet. Sooner or later all saudis living abroad will need to go to the embassy

Why?

"He is now a British citizen and lives in Wembley..."

> It was something that I couldn't comprehend. They can see your location. They can turn on the camera. They can turn on the microphone, listen to you," al-Masarir tells the BBC. "They got your data, all pictures, everything. You feel you've been violated."

This just can't be true. iOS is a very secure operating system or am I missing something ?

I did not know about his videos until now :)

It’s almost as if the world is wide and we are siloed.

For example “High School Musical” Made a billion dollars withoute even knowing such a thing existed.

Edit This is the first I heard of this as well, but it bothers me. Along with the Salisbury poisonings I would be interested in how any criminal activities foreign agents are suspected of doing in the UK (Russia presumably heading the list)