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Crime up, capacity down
Cybercrime is rising, but our ability to tackle it is not. Why isn’t the current government doing more? Online crime is growing at an unprecedented rate. Yet in January, when I asked the crime...
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Behind the criminal mind
How does a cyber attacker actually operate? A detailed knowedge of the target is just one of the requisite attributes Apparently plausible cyber-scare stories hit the national press at the rate of...
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Fighting back against fraud
Fraud is the country’s most costly crime, yet few know how to stay safe online. That must change, says London’s police commissioner A2013 report on the internet habits of the UK claimed that we spend...
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Ghosts in the machine
Fitting new security to old systems takes time, making a cyber terror-attack on critical national infrastructure a real and dangerous possibility What should we make of the threat of cyber terrorism?...
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Beyond Butch Cassidy
From major simulation exercises to new technology, the British banking industry is working to keep on top of cyber robbers The way we bank is being radically changed by technology. The take-up of...
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Here be pirates?
Businesses claim filesharing costs millions, yet many people don’t consider it a cybercrime. Dialogue between rights holders and consumers is needed The arrest of Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, a...
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"Continuity Cameron" may well be the best shot for those vying to replace him
Tim Montgomerie's resignation isn't news in of itself - but what it indicates is interesting. At first glance, Tim Montgomerie's resignation from the Conservative Party is a story that is only of...
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I had high hopes for Vinyl - but it's just a festival of dad nostalgia
I can't remember the last time I was so bored by a big-budget TV show. In fact, I only made it halfway through the first episode. The mind boggles at the thought of the meeting at which Martin...
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Commons Confidential: Poet of Richmond Park
Sadiq Khan's victory, Nicholas Soames' diet and Grant Schapps flogging houses.Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Aneurin Bevan and Michael Foot have been joined in the pantheon of British...
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When Ciro Guerra speaks about Embrace of the Serpant, you can hear the magic...
Normally when people say things like "I questioned every aspect of my existence", it sounds like they're selling something. But Guerra on the BBC World Service was different. To an interview (13...
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Why football is moving east
Gazza’s time in China was a harbinger of big changes. In late 2002, Paul Gascoigne made the curious decision to try to extend his football career in China. During his brief stay, he ate “a lot of bat”...
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Would you swap places with Stephen Fry? The Not So Secret Life of the Manic...
The familiarity, bordering on the generic, in the format of this “ten years later” update serves to make a valuable point about the UK’s appalling mental health provision. Stephen Fry’s life, eh....
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Jeremy Corbyn is just one politician who refuses a tie, but is he right to do...
For most of my adult life, I've escewed wearing a tie in almost all situations. Yet now I'm finally learning to respect them - especially when faced with Corbyn's undervest. Until recently, the tie...
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The “Dads for Change” campaign is a good start, but it’s no parenting revolution
The more men changing nappies, the better, but let’s not kid ourselves that it will liberate women from caring responsibilities. If there’s one men’s rights campaign that even the most ardent feminist...
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Risky business: the flaws and frustrations of XCOM2
Disobeying all the usual rules of the videogame sequel has mostly paid off. On paper, XCOM 2 isn’t so much of a sequel to 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown as it is a departure from rationality. When you...
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Capitalism for squirrels
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie reviewed.The Portable Veblen opens with a couple walking beside a creek in Palo Alto, California. He is “branded head to toe”: J Crew, Patagonia, Vans. She...
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The Returning Officer: Hastings II
In 1924, the Australian-born Muriel Matters stood for Labour in Hastings. In 1924, the Australian-born Muriel Matters stood for Labour in Hastings. An accomplished pianist and actor, she emigrated to...
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The forward march of Patisserie Valerie – Luke Johnson’s relentless campaign...
I have written before in this column about how deranging chain restaurants are. This week, I want to consider another egregious example: Patisserie Valerie. The other day, I bought a chocolate-chip...
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Leader: We must defend free debate in our universities
To no-platformers, a campus should be a “safe space”, where people are not exposed to views that they may find upsetting. To outsiders, it seems at first glance incomprehensible that the veteran gay...
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Huffington Post editor thinks journalism is only authentic when you don't pay...
Yes, really.“I love this question,” said Stephen Hull, the editor-in-chief of Huffington Post UK, when Steve Hewlett asked him on Radio 4’s Media Show yesterday why he doesn’t pay his writers. And...
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