The Latest Breaking News from Stephen Lovegrove

A recently announced Pentagon review of the AUKUS pact has sparked a renewed bout of debate in Australia. Led by the “AUKUS-agnostic” US Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby, the review raises serious questions over whether Australia will receive its US-made Virginia-class submarines on schedule from 2032.

Emails released as part of employment tribunal lift lid on questionable decisions made amid Afghanistan evacuation

Source says PM was given ‘general description’ of alleged incident but gave Williamson a job anyway

This is government Trump-style, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Sir Tom Scholar removed after six years shortly after PM’s arrival in office

He warned of the “pace and scale with which China is expanding its nuclear and conventional arsenals”

'Miscalculations' could see nuclear conflict

UK's National Security Adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove has given a speech warning that a nuclear war is now a greater threat as China rapidly builds up its weapons arsenal

Stephen Lovegrove says backdoor channels that kept world safe during the Cold War have disintegrated.