SHOULD we be allowed to read The Sun’s dramatic scoop revealing how the security services at Heathrow Airport seized a potentially deadly shipment of uranium being smuggled to UK-based Iranians?
A worrying situation that, as we also revealed yesterday, has resulted in an arrest.
Should we be permitted to know that the British secret service, MI5, used a foreign undercover agent even after he violently and sexually assaulted his British partner and told her she would be killed by “men in high places” if she spoke out?
How about the revelations that a Qatari sheikh handed King Charles a carrier bag full of cash for his favoured charities, or that a Saudi businessman received a British honour after making a similar donation?
Or the scandal of the vulnerable Snatch Land Rovers in which so many UK service personnel were blown up in Afghanistan and Iraq that they became known as “mobile coffins”?
These are just a few of the true stories of national interest that some people in high places would rather cover up.
Yet they were made public thanks to the bravery of whistleblowers and the hard work of UK journalists.
But future investigations such as these could be stymied, or even silenced, if the Government’s new National Security Bill is passed into law.
In the name of security, the bill poses a dire threat to investigative journalism.
This draft legislation defines security offences remarkably loosely and sets a very low bar for what is potentially considered spying.
It could...
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