Key word for this winter

by | Nov 19, 2008


The key word you need in your vocabulary this Winter: Reboot. As in:

‘We need to reboot the global economic system’.

‘Cameron attempts to reboot party image in the New Year’.

‘Major reboot needed in square mile’.

‘Brown’s reboot wins friends, party falls in line’.

Government Official: The ‘[insert policy area] is overly complex. The whole system needs to be rebooted’

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  • Charlie Edwards

    Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

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