“Q” will be the new “C,” and that’s the least history-making part of the British government’s announcement on Sunday that it had named Blaise Metreweli as the chief of the Special Intelligence Service. Ms. Metreweli will be the first female chief of the spy agency, known as MI6, in its 116-year history. By tradition, the only publicly identified official in MI6 is the chief. For the head of a spy agency, Mr. Moore was an uncharacteristically public figure. Ms. Metreweli, by contrast, has spent her entire career in intelligence and has virtually no public profile.

Source: The Times June 16, 2025 17:34 UTC