6 Feb, 2026
People love spy stories. Here are another couple of them:
The Daily Mail reported on 2 February that drone lessons were being given to pupils at the Russian School of London, which is run by the Russian embassy for the children of diplomats. According to the report, pupils receive instruction in the “Fundamentals of Security and Protection of the Motherland.”
On the same day, the Daily Telegraph suggested that Jeffrey Epstein may have been a Russian agent.
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats asked Sir Keir Starmer whether Peter Mandelson might have been leaking state secrets not only to an American financier convicted of paedophilia, but also to a Russian agent (House of Commons, 4 February).
Robert Skidelsky 