My Imperial War Museums Annual Lecture on 25 April at 7 pm London time, on #War , #Genocide and Other Crimes, will stream live here: youtube.com/watch?v=eBVk7n…

If I send you a message and you don’t have my number stored and you don’t recognise who it is, I have NOT perpetrated a cyber attack against you

In this morning’s mail.

Suzanne Raine Engelsberg Ideas Alastair Benn I cannot wait to hear this. A clash of titans.

In which I ambitiously make the case that terrorists have a grand strategy and Alastair Benn mostly disagrees.

Really enjoyed chatting all things terrorism with Suzanne on the latest episode of EI Talks... (Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts)

New event: Ancient Geopolitics - Iran

In the first of our new series on Ancient Geopolitics, Ali Ansari will speak about how events & ideas in ancient & late antiquity have been interpreted, used and abused in Iran today - William Hurst

Fri 12, 5.30
Reg: bit.ly/43DRr3v

Yesterday I got left on an inaccessible deserted cove miles from habitation, once a small landing port for people long since gone. My company was a robin and a sea eagle. I imagined a story passed through their generations that one day humans would come back. And it was me.

At an antique store here in Savannah, Georgia, stumbled upon a veritable treasure trove of Harper’s Weeklys spanning the tense, dread-filled period leading from March 1861—barely one month before the beginning of the Civil War—to July 1861. A short 🧵 of highlights: (1/6)

1/ IS has admitted that the four Moscow attackers have been apprehended and are in Russian custody, and prayed for their release. This came through its weekly paper al-Naba. Said 'it's known in Sharia' that anything a prisoner says/ confesses to isn't counted as it's under duress

“The consequences of a partial or complete defeat would be calamitous…But we have a lazy habit in the comfortable West — away from Europe’s front line in east and south Ukraine — of wishful thinking and being unprepared for bad surprises.”
Quite.
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thetimes.co.uk/article/24aa26…

I just found this review of Antonio Giustozzi 's book which I wrote last year. If you want to know about ISKP this is the place to start:engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-sh…

'All that is holy is profaned' etc

A brilliant article!
I, too, had a tiny Polo at one time - a red one with the Luxembourg numberplate QT107 - to which, too soon, I said goodbye ('with his little headlights downcast looking small and afraid'):

Easy to follow guidance for device & other bits of cyber security for politicians & others at high risk of cyber intrusion, as part of a wider set of help to organisations involved in democratic processes 👇

Great stuff from ⁦NCSC UK⁩ ncsc.gov.uk/collection/def…

Love this: makes me think of my wild days in the 70s when I had a Triumph TR6 convertible, beautiful blue and white, though my windows also fell into the door frame. I've given up cars now and take public transport or cabs.

In a swerve from geopolitical observations, this is my lament for the part-exchanged car. I'm not sure quite why Alastair Benn and Paul Lay thought that the sensitive photo accompaniment would be a massive pile of scrap metal. Not for the faint-hearted!

🧵How does IS claim attacks? 👇

Ukraine is lawfully exercising its UN Article 51 right of self-defence, and the European security order is a core interest of the West. It is strategically illiterate to think or argue differently.

Thus, there should be no conventional arms control, or ‘end-user’ restrictions,…

Had huge fun being on this podcast with the brilliant Suzanne Raine

Whether it makes any sense or not is for others to judge but it was great fun

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