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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.
Tory foreign affairs spokesman lost in Africa: Can you help him?
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Labour advisers flee Government nest (according to PR week)
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Networked security and system vulnerability
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A new Anglo-American relationship
Brown’s in the US and is promising a new Atlantic relationship. Unlike his predecessors Brown has not yet launched into a new Anglo-American security or...
I spy
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FBI predicts AQ defeat in under 4 years
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Soaring corn prices hit ethanol profits (The Times) Darling accused of failing to spot credit danger (The Times) IMF head calls for global action on turmoil...
Olympic torch relay… going…going…gone.
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The CIA’s assessment of the British Government’s role in Basra
Back in the middle of February I posted on the plight of the Iraqi people in Basra suggesting that while the the city was not in the media spotlight things...
Welcome to the 51st state
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Introducing RoboDog
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Google and intellipedia
Google is working with US intelligence agencies in a bid to connect the dots. Many of the contracts are for search appliances - servers for storing and...
What was Harriet thinking?
Following David's post on morons - Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party goes walkabout in her constituency... is the stab proof vest really...
Fool
Civil servants: ‘Our work is seriously challenging…’
Banned from discussing issues of national security with the media, officials and serving officers from the MoD have turned their attention to the internet....
The scramble for rice
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Green’s giggles on Radio 4
Yesterday morning Charlotte Green, the BBC newsreader collapsed in a fit of giggles on the Today Programme. Having listened to an item about the oldest known...
Friday caption competition
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