From the Register via Bruce Schneier: The EU is testing an airplane-seat camera system that tries to detect terrorists before they leap up and carry out their...
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.
Jihadi chic & hate couture
Walk along Oxford Street in London, mosey down King Street in Manchester or slink around the Victoria Quarter in Leeds and you are sure to see people wearing...
Community Resilience via a black cab
Something I hadn't picked up until recently was the role of the black cab on 7/7. Anecdotal evidence suggests that on the day of the bombings black cabs...
Slum wars
Richard mentioned Mike Davis' compelling book Planet of the Slums a while back and I've recently finished it, coincidentally it seems, just at the point when...
Why terrorism fails
Noticed while browsing the ever insightful Kevin Drum: The graph, from the Human Security Report 2007 shows that as terrorist incidents have risen in...
Zits
From today's Times:
Group Think
I've just been sent an invitation from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to their Land Warfare Conference (VIII). It strikes me (an idea not the...
MoD Communications 1.0: Defend the news
Apropos of Alex's post on the FCO's new website, I've been checking out the MoD's aptly named media blog 'Defence News' which like a tin of Ronseal doesn't...
Computer Bug
Swarms of ants are eating their way through electronics in America’s deep south. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at...
The orphan of Whitehall
I've got a short piece about organised crime on the Guardian's blog Comment is Free. From the intro: The annual report from the Serious Organised Crime...
A shambolic response to organised crime
Tomorrow the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) will publish its annual report/ threat assessment. It will make for uncomfortable reading at the Home...
Cause and effect
Is the global economic situation having an impact on poppy eradication in Afghanistan? Afghan farmers are capitalising on soaring food costs by growing wheat...
Americans: Anxious but increasingly savvy about world affairs
According to the latest Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index (CFPI), 60% of Americans say reducing energy dependence would strengthen their nation’s...
Responsibility to protect?
Is Lebanon going to war over a network?
It may be too soon to determine what has trigged the current violence in Beirut. Some analysts have suggested Hezbollah took advantage of a labour strike on...
Cyclone Nargis – Burma
Before After (The red square denotes the capital -...
Water water everywhere (so what’s all the fuss)
Is the lack of fresh water a catalyst for conflict? The scenario has become fashionable of late, with Ban Ki-moon pondering such a future earlier this year,...
Is suicide bombing rational?
Asks William Saletan over on Slate. Actually he raises a number of questions about whether suicide bombings are increasing around the world, why they might be...
Organised crime: Out of sight. Out of mind?
Last year I held a seminar at Demos on Silent Risks Tackling organised crime in the 21st century. A central argument put forward by the panel of experts was...
In bed with a mosquito
I admit I have never heard this but will now shameless use it... in answer to a question about what impact an individual can really have on climate change:...
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