[…] notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are simply brushed off. At the end of last year the MoD simply refused to release – even to MPs – a report from the Audit Office on its spending.4 And there’s the money being or 2 Unison […]
[…] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of money in […]
[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 32 8 inflation. They have to create uncertainty and frailty, because it’s only when companies feel nervous […]
[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 19 5 Mastercard, whose ads are on YouTube. Its APR (annual percentage rate) was 34.9% when I […]
[PDF file]: […] forbid the sales of Pegasus to governments that regularly violated human rights, but the petition was waved away. The Supreme Court in Israel refused to interfere with MOD decision-making, or to air the suit in public, or to even release the full text of the judgement to the public. The judges agreed with the […]
[…] counter-subversion preventative measures. I heard Hart speak on a number of occasions, first at the National Defence College, Latimer House, Buckinghamshire, in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate “propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ […]
[PDF file]: […] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc etc, boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a shit-load of money in […]
[…] And – who knows? – maybe some of Ware’s earlier journalism will be examined. Two examples of this have been covered in Lobster: his recycling of the MoD lies about Colin Wallace and his portrait of the politics of Brent, described in Simon Matthews’ ‘Baa baa white sheep’.132 My guess is that, faced with […]
[PDF file]: […] that the likes of AWS will be seen as so indispensable to GCHQ that it becomes as integral to its operations as BAE Systems is to the MoD, with all the monopolistic power that entails, with the potential for cost overruns and cosy relations etc. The growing dependence on Cloud services and the potential […]
[PDF file]: […] Undertakings and Agreements under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005’ (a.k.a. guidelines for engaging criminal informants) runs to over 14,000 words. or 33 ‘Secret British MoD Files Record MRF’s Failure to Protect Freds’ ’ or 34 A good introduction to the MRF can be found in chapter 2 of Martin Dillon’s The […]
