Commentary

A 21st century government to face a 21st century threat The rationalization of the UK government's security structures is a step in the right direction
29 Mar 2007

Have we just scored an enormous own goal? The alleged UK kidnapping plot A nation has been terrorized and recruitment to our armed forces and police has been potentially compromised, on pure speculation.
2 Feb 2007

MI5’s assessment of the terrorist threat in the UK Has the MI5 chief's warning on 9 November updated our appreciation of the the terror threat in the UK?
13 Nov 2006

Climate change news items 28 Mar 2008

Intercept Evidence and Terrorist Prosecution: The Debate Continues Whilst allowing intercept evidence into open court can possibly address existing civil liberty concerns, it could conversely result in a fundamental revision of counter-terror strategy.
19 Oct 2006

UK Government Advice on Preparing for Emergencies The government’s terror advice comes as a sobering thought to those of us who live ‘just-in-time’ lives. The daily activities of a typical family are complex and require split second timing and it is not uncommon that every member of a household are in different towns for large parts of the day. The slight delay of a train or a traffic jam can have severe knock-on effects resulting in panic phone calls to partners, schools and childminders. Just imagine what would happen if you couldn't make those calls because the phone networks had been commandeered to deal with a large scale emergency, or that you had been quarantined awaiting decontamination and was unable to contact anyone.
18 May 2006

Network of Terror Within days of the London terror attacks, we have heard a great deal about how terrorism in the UK has entered a new era.
18 May 2006

The Risks Down Under LONDON -- As one of the vast army of people who commutes to central London daily, I drove to my local train station last Friday. To my slight surprise, the car park was a lot less full than usual. I stopped to buy a newspaper and a coffee but spent the 45-minute trip wondering why it never occurred to me not to make my normal journey the day after the London Tube bombings. Others clearly felt differently. I'm a physicist and my technical background is blast injury so I'm probably more informed than most about the horrific injuries sustained by the people on those three packed underground trains and the lone bus on July 7. Although the bombs were 10 times smaller than those used last year in Madrid, or even in most suicide bombings in Israel, their impact was nonetheless devastating.
18 May 2006

Chancellor's speech signals good news for the security industry The reason is simple: the security market is spread across every Government department, every part of the critical national infrastructure, every first-responder community, every private business and every individual.
18 May 2006

Chancellor outlines his vision to safeguard Britain Reinforcing the need to introduce identity cards, the use of the Internet in propagating extremism and the need to counter financial support for terrorism were some of the key points of a speech delivered by Chancellor Gordon Brown at the Royal United Services Institute today.
18 May 2006

The National Security Strategy – The Golden Thread of Interconnectivity As the Government announces its National Security Strategy, Dr Tobias Feakin introduces the RUSI Homeland Security & Resilience Department's analysis on the document.
19 Mar 2008

Counter-terrorism and national security The National Security Strategy re-emphasises the importance of the Prevent strand of the Government’s existing counter-terrorism strategy and describes the importance of the role of wider society in aiding effort across the ‘four Ps’.
20 Mar 2008

Facing the Winds of Climate Change Climate change represents a new type of national security threat, requiring innovative institutional arrangements and unprecedented levels of international co-operation. The UK’s National Security Strategy sets out a bold plan to deal comprehensively with these challenges.
20 Mar 2008

A ‘Hard-Headed’ Approach to Risk? The Government’s National Security Strategy has provided a useful articulation of the great diversity of threats facing the UK. Does this articulation, along with its intention to create a National Risk Register, signal the adoption of a genuinely risked-based approach to security?
20 Mar 2008

When security begins far from home… The National Security Strategy is the first step in opening a dialogue between the UK Government, its international security partners and the public. It forms a framework into which all subsequent strategy and policy must fit.
20 Mar 2008

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