{"id":644566,"date":"2026-06-18T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644566\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:51:12","slug":"mi5-chief-sir-ken-mccallum-declares-himself-a-slow-horses-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644566\/","title":{"rendered":"MI5 chief Sir Ken McCallum declares himself a &#8216;Slow Horses man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I suppose maybe the person who wrote the question wanted to hear that there&#8217;s some rivalry or whatever \u2013 the truth is they are our friends, they are our colleagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Answering questions at the National Archives, Sir Ken said both agencies along with the police and others work together in a team &#8220;each doing our particular thing, the thing that we are specialists at \u2013 to keep the country safe together&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The series is based on the best-selling novel Slow Horses by Mick Herron and premiered in 2022, with season six set to be released in September, and a seventh season set for release in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show stars Sir Gary as Jackson Lamb, the shabby and dischevelled yet competent head of Slough House whose trademark move is breaking wind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an interview with the BBC in 2024 to promote the show&#8217;s fourth series, Sir Gary described the show as: &#8220;The sort of slightly shady, dirty side of espionage. It&#8217;s your PG Tips, Tescos version of it I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Slow Horses also stars Dame Kristin Scott Thomas as MI5 Director General Diana Taverner, Jack Lowden as agent River Cartwright, and SirJonathan Pryce as Lowden&#8217;s on-screen grandfather and retired British senior intelligence official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: &#8220;I suppose maybe the person who wrote the question wanted to hear that there&#8217;s some rivalry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}