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The Dangerous Precedent of Bailing Out Failure

September 28, 2025

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Another week, another clumsy intervention from ministers who seem incapable of learning the hard lessons of economic history. The £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) after a cyber-attack is being trumpeted as ‘decisive action to protect jobs’. In reality, it reeks of the same inexperienced judgment that turned the 2008 banking bailout into […]

Fragile by Design – How Social Paralysis Weakens Digital Trust

September 26, 2025

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In cybersecurity and technology governance, we spend endless hours dissecting frameworks, controls and certifications. We argue over Zero Trust architectures, resilience models and assurance seals. Yet there is a much deeper, more uncomfortable layer to the story, one that no encryption algorithm or multi-factor authentication or audit can patch or detect. Our digital trust is […]

Is Agentic AI the sharpest of double-edged swords?

September 24, 2025

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“The future arrives not with a whisper, but with an echo of mistakes we chose not to imagine.“ A storm is gathering in the world’s supply chains. Its name is Agentic AI (Artificial Intelligence). These autonomous systems, tasked with sourcing, negotiating, routing and optimising without human pause, are being heralded as the next great leap […]

When Facts Become Weapons in the new Cold war

September 16, 2025

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In today’s democracies, facts are no longer neutral. They have become weapons. A statistic pulled from context, a story exaggerated beyond proportion or a meme sharpened into a blade can now be deployed as artillery in political trench warfare. The battlefield is not foreign soil, it is our own timelines, group chats and dinner tables, […]

Is ‘Hacked’ a Dangerous Euphemism?

September 14, 2025

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Are you outraged by the endless stream of digital crimes, or have you become numb to them?  The latest in a long line of global victims being the Jaguar Land Rover breach that has thrown its supply chain into turmoil, threatening small businesses and livelihoods, while at the same time KillSec ransomware has been reported […]