Today’s US reactions to Russia’s alleged hacker support for the Republican election campaign show us how NOT to counter a cyber attack campaign. Don’t reveal you know you’ve been attacked. Don’t tell anybody that you know how it was done. Don’t identify the organisations involved, especially if they’re operating on your own soil. Don’t tell […]
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Why don’t the people of Northern Ireland protest against these attempts to prosecute British Army pensioners? Apart from the injustice, it risks destabilising a fragile peace? So here’s why they should: We’re told the Republican community in Northern Ireland require justice for what they believe to have been crimes committed by British soldiers. These prosecutions
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San Diego’s Coronado Island is home to one of the world’s most elite special force units, the US Navy Seals. They recently unveiled a life-size statue called “The Naked Warrior”, commemorating the dedication and sacrifice of Seals over the past 70 years. Initially, they wore normal combat uniforms not wet suits, but as the need for swimming
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It’s been properly winter cold here in Oxford England- after a great summer and mild autumn. Which means the temperature dropped just below zero… But today our Oxford weather’s reverted to being the usual mild – specifically: cloudy at plus 7 degrees centigrade. Whereas in Fairbanks Alaska, it’s clear and sunny at minus 28 degrees centigrade. I’ve
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Green Party Lights in Alaska In both Fairbanks and Oxford, environmental issues are important. For Oxfordonians the interest is indirect, academic (and caring), whereas Fairbanks is surrounded by vulnerable tundra. The East Oxford Council ward where I live, had until a few years ago, an impressive Green party representation. At one point every councillor in our ward
Oxford England – as some Americans would say, is one of the world’s bicycle cities. With the exception of Headington Hill, it’s flat, and being a medieval city, a push bike is the best way to get into the city and around it. Plus it’s so medieval that the City Council do everything they can
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Sunday, 29 November 2015 The UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s logic and actions so far in saying that the case for bombing Syria has not yet been made, are correct. The case has not been made – as I will explain. This is effective Opposition. But further action is required on his part – and that of
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The reality of UK parliamentary democracy is that the views of millions of actual vote are lost in the ballot box. They make no difference to the outcome. SO now that I’ve just voted – my civic duty is done. But to what end? Had I voted for the sitting candidate who is certain to
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Green issues are far too important to be politicised. A conversation yesterday with a local Green Party canvassing person made me realise that the UK’s Green Party has become too concerned with politics to be effective as a pressure group. The background to this was after one of my musical friends – in a FaceBook discussion –
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Senor Victor Radazzo, the former head of intelligence for the Argentinian Federal Police, has been tracking secret Special Forces battles that took place during the Falklands War in mainland Argentina. He has photographs of graves and the bones of dead British soldiers, plus this photograph below, which he says is of some of the SAS
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