Some of the material was so disturbing SIS agents required to view it for their job needed pastoral care.

And far be it from me to…

'She put herself through the assessment process to get a taste of what would-be recruits were faced with. It included role playing, where she had to enter a room, strike up a conversation with its occupants and "elicit certain information from…

The Government says between 30 and 40 people are being actively watched.…

what I want to give is a small part of the truth shameful

believe me that Muslims are good people and welcome all people
and respect and help others

but when it comes down to these crimes they become crazy and take revenge at any price
because this is…

Driven primarily by the US, where a pressure cooker filled with black powder and nails is a WMD, by law.

So. "We" invaded. Why? Cos there were MWDs. "We" didn't find much. But it seems "we"…

Blair's essay something to retch over

And, of course, Hong Kong. Even after reverting to Chinese jurisdiction it's still managed to maintain some semblance of British institutional structures. And Macau, well, it's still the Vegas of the East to a certain degree.

Except on Taiwan. Lucky little Republic of China.

And hair-splitting about who invented what wasn't really the point of what I said. I won't say technology is "values-neutral", because there often is a specific intent – involving…

Says here it was developed by a chemist working on fluorinated refrigerants who set off an accidental polymerisation.

I cast my mind back to Sectarian Bloodlust 1.0, during which a number of regressively minded individuals turned Afghanistan into a terrorist training…

I'd agree that it's dismaying that technology is used to do stupid, evil things, but that's pretty much half the story of technology, since we first picked…

I have to say, I find this kind of idea – which is surprisingly prevalent in techie circles…

Or should that be il-liberal?

It was good that the subtitles weren't comic sans eh.

The 'friend' who is the enemy of my enemy's enemy is indeed a friend in need..... but hang on....wasn't I fighting them last week?

Jesus! Allah! What a…

If not, I suspect it would make a good Phd topic and would answer questions like: "what is the Twitter equivalent of bombers…

That is an interesting piece.

and notably, Putin > Yeltsin < Gorbachev < Brezhnev = Khrushchev < Stalin, mostly.

Funny, ISIL (or EIIL in French) has been drawing the same connection.

Well, from what I understand, violence generally has been trending down over time, but more liberal? Like UKIP, Front National, Tony Abbott....?

Sounds about right. When the whole ISIS/ISIL thing started making the news, the first word on my mind was 'blowback'.

One of the more infamous…

But the wars of the 20th century were mostly non-religious (except in a few crannies like Northern Ireland and Bosnia).

My point really is that, left to…

Well, sort of. The Thirty years war ended. But that was not the end of sectarian violence in Europe, not by a long shot. I don't think I'd look to Europe as the centerfold of peace on earth.

Next the cunning buggers will use it to spy on us
Or impose internet filters to protect us from badies
oh

One has to hand it to ISIS's solution to their messaging – so much easier and cheaper…

We got over it. The people of the Middle East will, eventually. The best thing we can…

And no I'm not saying that all of the sects have such an agenda, just the ones committing…

This is, of course, the same morally bankrupt media culture that in this far flung iteration decided that Cameron Slater is blogger of the year.

See, people love that stuff. My flatmate can’t get enough of it on live…

That hadn't occurred to me, Craig — it's a very interesting point.

And let's be cold about it — "news" they face precisely no legal or reputational sanction for publishing. Unlike, say, breaching a suppression order to…

As an aside, some tweets mentioned that 'the white widow' was seen nearby very recently — a fine trigger for hysterical UK red-tops' coverage.