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• Open Government? From 'need to know' to 'need to share'
  from : charlieedwards 18th July 2007
• Miliband's starter for 10 In a speech to Chatham House the new foreign secretary, David Miliband has scrapped the FCO’s 10 priorities in favour of focusing on extremism, radicalisation and conflict on the one hand; climate change and the EU on the other; While calling for better coordination across the FCO and other departments on particular countries and challenges. from : charlieedwards 20th July 2007
• The politics of national security (or how to spin by the new PM)

  Yesterday Gordon Brown gave a statement on national security. It was a veritable shopping list of activities, initiative and policies. Most of them had been announced last week but it was wheeled out again yesterday for one reason. Today the Conservative Party will publish their national and international security policy review. Brown’s sharp piece of political maneuvering will leave Cameron and his national security adviser Pauline Neville Jones only a few recommendations to choose from. In his statement Brown was able to announce the creation of a unified border police (the centre piece of the Conservative's proposal), propose a £70 million pound fund for local communities to resist violent extremism and announce 2 further things the government should have done 3 years ago

  from : charlieedwards 26th July 2007
• Political intelligence What it is with politicians and reorganizing Whitehall departments and agencies? John Reid’s answer to the threat from counter-terrorism was to split the Home Office creating a Ministry of Justice and a ‘security ministry’. Nick Clegg’s answer to tackling extremism is to merge the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The ideas published in a new book by the Lib Dems are primarily designed to ‘harden the party’s position on law and order, an area in which they have traditionally been seen as soft’. from : charlieedwards 12th September 2007
• Lord West's abrupt ‘about turn’

  Yesterday Lord West was asked whether he thought the police needed more than 28 days to question terrorist suspects.

  08:20 (on the Today Programme): 'I'm not convinced we need to hold terror suspects longer than 28 days'
  09:05 (having had breakfast with Gordon Brown): 'Actually, I am convinced'

  from : charlieedwards 15th November 2007
• Metrostrategy Yesterday I spoke to 120 senior officers at the Australian Command Staff College on national security. After the main Q&A session the topic of conversation moved onto new theatres of conflict. Someone suggested that the armed forces would have to focus more on cities, as a result of increasing urbanisation globally. Urban warfare is an area I am not very familiar with. Fortunately Michael Evans, a fellow at the Australian Defence College has just written an excellent pamphlet on the subject  - City without Joy. from : charlieedwards 26th July 2008
• Google's eyes in the sky I've just finished reading a fascinating paper on Google Earth by the Open Source Centre. Google Earth came online in 2006 and had an instant impact.  Some Demos researchers spent lunchtimes whizzing through Antarctica or hunting for Chinese submarines.*  Sometimes we even got so far as to create mashups of useful information. But Google Earth also opened wide a window on places and events that five years ago only spies could see - and this made some government's very very nervous.... from : charlieedwards 8th September 2008
• Ready or not? The global financial turmoil has concentrated everyone’s minds on one form of risk, but there are plenty more out there to keep public sector managers awake at night. Public Finance convened a round table of experts to see how prepared they are for any eventuality. from : charlieedwards 5th November 2008

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