So, what does an Iranian dissident need from outside the country? One of those integrated lawful-intercept management systems from a major European vendor (nice, aren’t they)? A barrage of cruise missiles? A lot of hot air from the President? Why not ask one? Here’s the exiled co-founder of the Revolutionary Guard. I hope that the…
Read More Sense: IranOK, so the Guardian spent last week having a great fit of very seriousness* about the UEA Climate Research Unit e-mail leak. Things that weren’t Serious enough to get into the paper included the decisive refutation of the whole idea that the urban heat island effect explains warming and the exoneration of Michael Mann. Here…
Read More very serious indeedSo, here goes with the first in my series of posts on the strategic defence review as a blog. Here are what the MoD thinks are the major forces that will determine the political environment: The National Security Strategy sets out the key threats to the UK’s security and the underlying drivers of those threats.…
Read More Sunday Strategic Defence Review Blogging: Chapter 1“We can’t go on like this” was all about style and look-and-feel; the tombstone seems to be a reaction against it and a reversion to a fairly crude, tabloid approach. Perhaps it reflects discord among the people who commissioned it? It would be easy to identify the first with Steve Hilton and the second with…
Read More Camera On. Camera Off. We’re still on CCTV