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Academic researcher in intelligence and security, currently Dean of Faculty, but posting in a personal capacity. Poor standard runner. Excitable cricketer. Prone to crunchy deductions....
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counterintelligence horror show...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Behind the cushion.. or maybe behind the sofa session of evidence: www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

WOW! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

No10 has issued odd internal guidance banning officials speaking at public events It means more closed govt & worse policy decisions-the opposite of what ministers say they want From @drhannahwhite.bsky.social & me @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Sadly common: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gruesom...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

A wonderful idea that I'm very happy to be a part of: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Kennedy remake of CDC vaccine panel has US insurers reassessing sources of expertise reut.rs/3GdpnfS

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Looking at a consequential NATO summit. The headlines may be elsewhere, but what happens in this meeting will have long-lasting effects. www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/europ...

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 😱😱😱

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It should be important to have independent monitoring of ceasefire and violations: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

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WW3 has been going a little while.. but beginning to go public now.. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

But my mother-in-law has her not really very blue looking passport, and so all is apparently worth it. The takeaway should be that there are rarely consequences for lying in politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Happy 50th, BISA - from me, a former co-editor (with Erik Jones) of BISA News. This was Richard Little’s first editorial as Chair @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It's going to be really hard to sell Russian air defense systems after this.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Iran's foreign minister is in Moscow to be told what others have already learned. That an alliance with Russia means 1 of 2 things will happen: -Russia will attack you anyway -Russia will do nothing while someone else attacks you.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

The rules-based order was more normative than legal. Yes, it was also legal, but no solid routes to remedy (not really). But flimflamming aside, it really is as dead the Dodo now: theconversation.com/us-joins-isr...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Jcpoa was working quite well until it was scrapped: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

All in on blue: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow we're doing Iraq again, but dumber.

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Reuters, not The Onion.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The woke right. I have learned a new term.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/t... motivation is crucial. The motivation here is a pitch to join the oligarchy.

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Everyone should listen to the interview on Hardfork with Mechanize (www.mechanize.work) a v buzzy startup trying eliminate all human labour. I would suggest they have misread the lived experience within history.. open.spotify.com/episode/7yHb...

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@caseynewton.bsky.social cell plans are $80 a month?! Automation liberates people... What am I listening to!? First time the UK has been cheaper, on the former ($17). On the latter, they were offensively wrong on the automated liberation point. They have read no history. Your and K's pushback=good.

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Is The Sun wilfully this stupid? www.thesun.co.uk/news/3550545... ... Would be in Iran's Plan A. We should know it is where they'd prefer to conduct ops. We've accused them of the same for years. Can a desperate last act be for 45years?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The joy of random interviews. Where actually the responsible intelligence academic tries to note what we cannot possibly know, and what is likely unexceptional: www.lindro.eu/2025/06/18/i...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

An important piece of the puzzle slots into place.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments