Content overview: “MI5 Chief Warns Rightwing Extremists More Likely to Consider Terror Attacks on UK Immigrat”. The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, has issued a stark warning that rightwing extremists holding anti-immigration views are increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks against immigration centres and asylum hotels in the UK. In a recent assessment, McCallum described the shift from radicalised sentiment to violence as “the most marked trend” in the spy agency’s caseload over the past year, contributing to an elevated overall terror threat level.
He also highlighted Russia as “aggressor number one,” citing assassination plots, explosive threats, and cyber-attacks that sometimes come “not much short” of conventional warfare, along with attempts to interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum via RT, Sputnik, and troll accounts. McCallum announced a new AI threat assessment centre to counter risks of hostile states or terrorists using artificial intelligence to develop bioweapons. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.