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Theme : security
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National Security: Just another public service?
Can the lessons and innovations in public service reform that have taken place in the past decade apply to the UK's security architecture? Public services are becoming more accountable, collaborative, and transparent at a time when the traditional boundaries between domestic and international politics, policy areas and public and private spaces have become blurred and interconnected. The UK’s national security structures, its cultures and methods are being challenged by 21st century...
from : charlieedwards
5th March 2007
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Reid to be MI6 security chief
Today's Times online leads with a slightly misleading headline. It seems that John Reid and his two advisers have become so impatient with reorganising government in the face of the current threat from terrorism that he has decided to oust John Scarlett (current Chief of MI6) and install himself in the Service's Vauxhall offices. However, on closer inspection the article suggests that Reid is in fact poised to be given the role of terrorism and security supremo after apparently winning his battle to split his department in two.
from : charlieedwards
27th February 2007
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The Case for a National Security Strategy
from : charlieedwards
23rd February 2007
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Bucking a trend
The US has one, while Dutch minister's are going to sign off on theirs soon, and the French are seriously thinking about creating one. Not content with a having one already, the Singapore national coordination secreteriat has just produced a glossy 'Diary of Resolve' outlining all their work securing the country in the past 1826 days (that's since 9/11 to you and me). An emerging trend of the post Cold War world is for government's to produce (public or private) national security strategies....
from : charlieedwards
9th February 2007
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Anti-terrorism will change but not in a bizarre split, Mr Reid
John Reid’s proposal over the weekend to split the Home Office in two is not going to happen, nor should it. Mr Reid has raised a serious question but he has addressed it in a bizarre way and come up with the wrong answer.
from : charlieedwards
24th January 2007
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Red herring or a case of divide and rule?
Reorganising a department of state is a nightmare and it can take years to produce results, so why is John Reid announcing such a massive shake up of the Home Office? Could it be because of Ruth Turner or is this a real revolution in home affairs? It is especially confusing given that, according to Whitehall sources, the overarching responsibility for co-ordinating the Government’s counter-terrorist strategy may be given to the Cabinet Office, after a recent security review carried out by Reid.
from : charlieedwards
22nd January 2007
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The Case for a National Security Strategy
The Case for a National Security Strategy While the British Government continues to focus on, and direct resources to counter-terrorism, the UK faces a broad spectrum of complex and interrelated threats at home and abroad. The challenges of serious and organised crime, WMD proliferation, pandemics, natural and man-made disasters, as well as failed states, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, demand an increasingly joined-up approach from the British government’s security architecture. An...
from : charlieedwards
13th January 2007
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Demos Annual Security Lecture 2006
Wednesday 20 December 2006, 6pm Demos, Magdalen House
from : mollywebb
3rd January 2007
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Secrets
In an interview with The Times today, Sir Glenn Torpey, the Chief of the Air Staff, says that since 9/11 there has been at least one incident a month requiring an RAF fighter from a quick-reaction alert unit to intervene. Elsewhere The Independent leads with a question about the Freedom of Information. Separately the two articles are newsworthy items of some interest. Read together they raise some interesting questions about what information the Government is prepared to make public.
from : charlieedwards
28th December 2006
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In the national interest: Organising government for national security
from : charlieedwards
21st December 2006
