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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