> Elsewhere there’s been news stories about British MPs complaining that the security and intelligence services have too high a media profile … so perhaps there

> Elsewhere there’s been news stories about British MPs complaining that the security and intelligence services have too high a media profile … so perhaps there’s some ‘push and pull’ going on behind the scenes. Likely true. I can only really talk for GCHQ, but they have certainly made a significant effort in recruitment for years, growing up near a GCHQ ground station we had a visit during my final year pre-university to try and sell us on working there. I'm fairly sure that GCHQ was also at my university's careers fair. The security services (MI5, MI6, GCHQ) really don't pay very well in the UK as they are on the same civil service pay scale as the rest of government. I'm hardly surprised they struggle to hire against private companies.