Queen and Duke visit top-secret spy centre
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
THE Queen and Duke of Edinburgh paid a private visit to the top-secret communications headquarters GCHQ, to celebrate 100 years of Britain's security services.
Government Communications Headquarters
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Queen Elizabeth Photographed Today
Cheltenham Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Phillip sailed into Gloucester Docks today to see the regeneration of Gloucester. They visited Gloucestershire College, then went to GCHQ in Cheltenham in the afternoon. I took quite a few pics at Gloucester of the royal couple, but didn't follow on to GCHQ (Intelligence) as security is so tight there you can't get near. You can see my photographs of the...
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A quiet revolution?
NO2ID Birmingham (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Whilst the mainstream media and excitable young people are opining that the dawn of National Socialism is nigh, our authoritarian state apparatus is being built quietly behind the scenes. The government has outsourced parts of the contract relating to the mass surveillance project blandly named the Intercept Modernisation Programme (IMP) to Hewlett Packard (HP) formerly known as EDS, see here. If,...
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MI-5: "Torture Saved Lives"
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
MI5 chief defends links with foreign agencies accused of torture MI5 had a duty to work with overseas agencies to counter 'imminent' al-Qaida threat, says Jonathan Evans By Ian Cobain Friday 16 October 2009 12.17 BST Courtesy Of The Guardian The head of MI5 has issued a vigorous defence of the organisation's co-operation with intelligence agencies known to use torture , saying that it thwarted many...
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, 2009 18:24 GMTDirector Alex Jones warns...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
, 2009 18:24 GMTDirector Alex Jones warns that we must halt the ‘Fall of the Republic’ planned for AmericaDirector Alex Jones warns in his new film‘Fall of the Republic’, launching today, that supporters and fellow patriots must stand up for liberty against the enemies of the Republic or forever be enslaved by an elite ruling through tyrannical social control.GCHQ outsources...
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Sources of the Constitution
Washminster (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The USA has, along with many countries, a single document defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers, and duties, of a government. US Constitution Of course the study of US Constitutional Law doesn't end with that single document. There is a large body of caselaw and authoritative commentary to consult - as well as other subsidiary constitutional...
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French defence group hands advisory role to former head of GCHQ
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Sir David Pepper, the former head of GCHQ, the Government’s top-secret listening post, has been appointed as a senior adviser to Thales, the defence and aerospace giant.
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The GCHQ Case
Washminster (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Just before Christmas 1983, Mrs Thatcher - who was hostile to Trade Unions - ordered that the terms and conditions of civil servants working at GCHQ be revised so as to exclude membership of any trade union other than a departmental staff association approved by the director of GCHQ. The Unions, representing their members who faced a stark choice - quit their union - or give up their job - brought...
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CCHQ you plonker, not GCHQ...!
The complete works of TGR Worzel (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
I was rather surprised today to receive some post in an unfamiliar envelope. I always worry that it might be a speeding fine or something, so I always check the envelope to look for clues before opening it. To my alarm, I saw the letters CCHQ on the back. I can't explain why, but I immediately thought of the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham. Good grief I thought, they don't...
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Sir David Pepper, retired boss of GCHQ, joins Thales UK advisory board - familiar photo in the press release
Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Those of you who keep an eye on the revolving door between Government securocrat mandarins and lucrative jobs offered by the defence and security industry vested interests, may be interested in this press release from the French owned Thales Group...
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Graduate job market bounces back
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
In the early part of this year, graduate job fairs were not the lively occasions normally associated with the milk round of recruitment. They would have been even quieter were it not for universities advertising further study. But this year's Autumn Graduate Fair, in the Royal Horticultural Halls in central London on 28 October, has an impressive list of exhibitors, from IBM to GCHQ to ClubMed.
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Judicial Review
Washminster (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Winston Churchill once described Britain and the USA as "two nations divided by a common language". This is evident in the use of the term "Judicial Review". In the USA the term can be used to describe the review of the constitutionality of legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President. Of course it cannot have that meaning in the UK. In Britain "Judicial Review"...
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A Brown Interview I Was Lucky To Miss
OberonHouston (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Ther e I was yesterday morning watching Andrew Marr interview Gordon Brown on my ExPat Sky+ box (Tunis can just see, their satellite, Opus B1, but with a dish the size of something GCHQ would be proud off) and then the bombshell question struck. My wife asked me if I would help her pick up the garden furniture that she had bought from some departing ExPat Dutch cloggies. FFS. So anyway, the interview...
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Hugh Alexander: Chess and the Cold War
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
I bought a copy of Standpoint today. I was pleased to find it had a chess column, but disappointed to find it was by Dominic Lawson. I know he used to be a county player, but - damn it - so did I, and you want to read someone who knows more about the game than you do. But I take it all back because it was a fascinating piece. Lawson writes about Hugh Alexander who, like Harry Golombek , was a leading...
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New cyber-security research centre opens in Belfast
The Register (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
'Forget GCHQ, we're the daddies now' Computer boffins at Queen's University in Belfast are chuffed as ninepence today to snip the ribbon on a new government- and industry-sponsored cybersecurity research centre.…