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I'm in a Tribunal case against the Cabinet Office who were using NCND on whether the security services were involved in managing the responses to Freedom of Information requests about the Gatwick drone. Today they've dropped NCND but are not revealing the FOIAs they dealt with:

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I've had a lightning fast ICO decision in my favour against the Ministry of Defence, mainly as they went radio silent. I was seeking the cost of the deployment of the RAF to Belgium to detect drones, in light of the fact the Brussels incident was bogus so we're due a refund!

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NEW FOIA on drones allegedly near UK MoD bases. Credit to the MoD's legal, they've reversed a national security exemption without needing to go to the ICO. The count of 266 drones includes reports by members of the public which are notoriously inaccurate!

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DRONES OVER DENMARK? We’ve just received this response from the Danish military: “The Defence Command has been tasked by the Ministry of Defence to review the information presented in TV 2’s reporting and has no further comments at this time.”

As a reminder for anyone reposting today's story on drones from ships, it's clickbait because the analysis is demonstrably flawed. I acquired the Lakenheath police call logs and NPAS patrol video via FOIA, there were no drones when 20 illuminated Russian drones were supposedly there.

Great work by @pmolpmol.bsky.social, he's uncovered that it's likely the Danish military have misled about when they shot at red/green/white lights in the sky, which happened to be at the same time a passenger plane flew over. This smacks of covering up! nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2026-0...

Messenger-besked udfordrer Forsvarets historie om 43 skud mod ”drone”

Beboere i landsbyen Borris hørte skud mindst 11 minutter inden, at Forsvaret selv forklarer, at der blev skudt med skarpt mod en formodet drone.

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In military circles there seems to be a genuine view war with Russia is coming. >If< that is true, I fear the fact that increasing regulation on sub 250g drones & councils banning drones, is simply ensuring young people that could be FPV drone pilots won't be. A huge own goal!

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Frihedsbrevet, one of the few news sources at the time that was raising alarm bells about the alleged drones in Denmark, is continuing to dig & finding even the claimed radar data is being oversold. My experience is that airports look to argue a narrative after drone mistakes.

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Yesterday the DfT publicly posted updated versions of the Gatwick 2018 Lessons Learned document which the ICO ruled must be made public but government lawyers are appealing. The update provides virtually no new insights, but I'll summarise these:

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