Olga Maitland

By Sebastian Wigg, Alice Charalombous, and Alexandra Ryabov Europe is moving to close a major missile-defence gap, but the UK remains exposed in the near term. On 13 July, Ukraine and nine European states, including the UK, established the Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition, which will explore the joint development of a more affordable interceptor built around Ukraine’s Freyja project. Funding remains at the stage of identifying potential opportunities rather than binding...

By Sebastian Wigg, Alice Charalambous and Alexandra Ryabov The UK government has announced Operation Albiston Shadow, its largest home defence exercise in decades, to be held in 2027 to test the country's ability to counter hybrid threats, including cyberattacks, sabotage of critical infrastructure, and disinformation campaigns. The multi-day exercise, revealed as part of the Annual Statement on National Resilience, will run alongside a wider Nato exercise and involve ministers and hundreds...

On 22 June 2026, Tata Electronics confirmed a cybersecurity incident after the extortion group World Leaks published more than 630GB of reportedly stolen data, comprising over 204,000 files. The material appears to include Apple supplier specifications, Tesla drawings marked as trade secrets - including material tied to Tesla's Project Highland, the codename for the revamped Model 3 - as well as employee passport scans, emails and system logs. Tata, which assembles about a third of Apple's...