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30 January 2021 • 12:01am Stella Kyriakides, the EU's health commissioner, who said of AstraZeneca's vaccine supply: "We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts" Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order. With our astounding success at securing supplies of vaccines, why don’t we offer to divert any excess UK-made supplies to the EU – p...

Top private school accused of 'tarnishing' its own history with move to honour Cambridge Five spy with blue plaque An alumnus of Gresham's School in Norfolk is Donald Mclean, a member of the infamous Soviet spy ring during the Cold War  Russian spy, double agent and Old Greshamian Donald MacLean  One of the country’s leading private schools has been accused of “tarnishing” its own history by seeking to erect a commemorative plaque to a Cold War double agent with a plaque. Gresham's School is seeking permission from North Norfolk District Council to mount a series of plaques on its Ol...

Published: 9:28 AM January 27, 2021    Donald Maclean, the former British diplomat, who was publicly exposed as a spy for the Russians in 1951, although US and British intelligence agencies had long suspected him. - Credit: PA A school's bid to erect blue plaques celebrating some of its famous former pupils has come under fire for not including enough women - and for honouring a spy who betrayed Britain. The project aims to "commemorate prominent Old Greshamian’s by linking them to the original building of Gresham’s School". But the scheme has been criticised for including just one wo...

A top private school has been condemned for including Soviet spy Donald Maclean among a list of former pupils that it wants to honour with blue plaques.   Gresham's School has applied to put up plaques celebrating a selection of notable alumni on its Old School House building in Holt, Norfolk. Those selected include The Crown actress Olivia Colman, Sir James Dyson, composer Benjamin Britten, poet WH Auden and hovercraft inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell.  The school, which costs £36,000-a-year to attend for those boarding, also hopes to honour Donald Maclean, a British diplomat who l...

5 Min Read LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War. FILE PHOTO: Soviet secret agent George Blake gestures as he speaks at a presentation of a book of letters written by other spies from a British prison, in Moscow June 28, 2001. /File Photo Britain says he exposed the identities of hundreds of Western agents across Eastern Europe in the 1950s, some of whom were executed as ...