Picture the scene. A particular table at a particular casino, strangely not part of the action. A gentleman comes to the table and plays one single game of baccarat. The stake – ten million dollars. He loses, pays his debt and leaves without a word. But while this may sound like the stuff of spy […]
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‘Unexpectedly’ Nicolas Maduro won another six-year term as President of Venezuela in the recent elections. The country has now reached its lowest point since Chavez’s departure. The 55-year-old leftist will have a lot to work on, even though it was his policy of extensive corruption and remissness of economic stability that led his ship to
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Could Britain be about to take suspected Russian dirty money seriously? First was the introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders, allowing for greater exploration into the vast amounts of money certain individuals brought to the UK. Now, Roman Abramovich is leading the line of oligarchs facing visa renewal issues. It appears that the Chelsea owner will
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In 1940, a nondescript organisation operated out of the Rockefeller building in New York. It may have been officially dealing with British passports, but in reality The British Security Coordination was designed and set up with the express intention of promoting the British war effort, spreading anti-Nazi propaganda across the States and hopefully convince America
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A row is brewing between the UK government and overseas territories over the age-old bugbear of offshore companies. By the end of the decade, Parliament intends to ensure that records of public ownership are freely available in jurisdictions such as the Caymans, the Virgin Islands and Bermuda – or it will ‘compel’ them to be
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The laziness of hackers is making them smarter. Technological advance is offering new techniques to malign actors and honeypots provide the opportunity to observe how hackers operate. In new types of attack the “dirty work” is carried out by the machine drastically cutting human involvement and time. What it is worrying is not only that
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The investigation into the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the blogger and investigative journalist killed by a bomb planted in her car, remains open. After six months the progress appears to be null and who ordered the murder has not yet been identified. Just bad luck, or an intentional and deliberate cover up by the
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Presented for your consideration: a recipe for disaster. Take one part secret history and the desire to conceal it, one part the ability to recreate such truths as you may desire, and blend well with an inability or unwillingness to question. Served together, this is a recipe found only in one place… not the Twilight
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News comes that in recent days, the UK launched a large-scale cyber-attack on Islamic State designed to “hinder and suppress” the group’s ability to co-ordinate and spread their words. While one might find it strange for a sovereign government to openly admit to this kind of provocation, the specific dynamics surrounding IS at least make
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Robotics are on the rise and any development that comes through in the world of tomorrow – be it robot priests, completely automated Amazon shops and warehouses or the Virginia Tech robot that can open doors – will normally be met with some variation of the phrase “This is how Skynet begins!”. But if we
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