Education, Skills & Slavery… and why we’re probably screwed.

It is an often lamented truism that the UK no longer has manufacturing industry – people point at the closed steel plants of the north while recollecting a golden age of manufacturing where the UK built the wheels of industry around the world. The statement that we no longer make things isn’t entirely true of […]

Marcus Povey

It is an often lamented truism that the UK no longer has manufacturing industry – people point at the closed steel plants of the north while recollecting a golden age of manufacturing where the UK built the wheels of industry around the world. The statement that we no longer make things isn’t entirely true of […]

Labour’s Intercept Modernisation Programme returns from the grave

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Marcus Povey

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Why Wikileaks will fail

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days, you will be aware that the whistle blowing website Wikileaks has recently published a massive collection of US government memos dating back to the 1960s. Even the issuing of a D-Notice has failed to prevent the reporting of some of the contents […]

Marcus Povey

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days, you will be aware that the whistle blowing website Wikileaks has recently published a massive collection of US government memos dating back to the 1960s. Even the issuing of a D-Notice has failed to prevent the reporting of some of the contents […]