TYR Pub!
It’s been a while. How about a TYR Pub! meetup? Update: OK, no point buggering about any further. Let’s say the 11th July. And let’s say 7.30pm at the Queen’s Hotel, Crouch End Broadway N8.
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Sometimes you look around the Internet for just the right blog discussion and only then realise that it’s the one you will have to write.
Read More Thort.Open newslist 6
OK, it’s time for one of these. Books: I’ve recently read Mike Martin’s An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict, Ian Fraser’s Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain, Agata Pyzik’s Poor Sexy East, and Phil Lapsley’s Exploding the Phone. I’ve also got the MOD Lessons Learned Compendium on Iraq hanging…
Read More Open newslist 6Tories and thugs (#Savile warning)
The Leeds post on Savile required subtlety; it dealt with things like culture and class that only work that way. So what about Broadmoor, the asylum where the Tories put the psychopath in charge? Well, Leeds was about the things nobody was willing to say. As we will shortly see, Broadmoor was about precisely the…
Read More Tories and thugs (#Savile warning)Genuinely evil
I have been reading the Leeds Teaching Hospitals report on Jimmy Savile. Obviously, it couldn’t really be any more grim, and you’ll have heard the latest shocking revelations via the mainstream media and Jamie Kenny. But what about really sick and perverted behaviour? Here’s some for you. A hugely important theme in the report is…
Read More Genuinely eviltrust no one except perhaps interfluidity
Steve Randy Waldman appears to have independently rediscovered the idea of a low-trust society and to have quantified a transition point.
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There’s a bit more on the war of Coulson’s Clearance here, from Robert Peston, who I seem to remember attracted attention back in 2011 as being oddly pro-Murdoch. I know the answer to why Coulson was not given top level security vetting in 2010. What happened was that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood had decided…
Read More heywoood, always up to no gooodThe problems of Puffin Party security
Here’s an interesting story of a Russian military intelligence officer deployed into Ukraine, apparently under plausibly-deniable cover, whose communications were meant to hide in plain sight among the chaotic noise of the Internet. Specifically, he’s a gamer and re-enactor in private life and he tried to use the channels of this subculture. Unfortunately for him,…
Read More The problems of Puffin Party securityRecap: Andy Coulson, strap one
People are asking about this. Did anyone ever get to the bottom of Andy Coulson’s security clearance? Or the vetting process to hire him? Messy stuff coming… — Mark Ferguson (@Markfergusonuk) June 24, 2014 Coulon was originally subject to a “security check” level of vetting, which wouldn’t have permitted him to see documents above SECRET…
Read More Recap: Andy Coulson, strap oneDisrupt the cash
Following up on the Disgorge the Cash x John Seddon post, here is a really good discussion of Clay Christensen, pointing out that his real unique selling point is that he has a theory of innovation that asserts the authority of management, calming the fears evoked by the theorists who demanded worker empowerment as a…
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