Halfords Manager Who Stole £90K to Fuel Gambling Goes to Jail The former manager of an automotive retailer in Scotland was recently sentenced to prison after stealing £90,000 ($120,000) from his employer to fuel a crippling gambling addiction. The criminal case involved a 51-year-old fo...
Twenty Years After 9/11: Reflections from Alex Younger, Former Chief of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Sir Alex Younger was a career intelligence officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, for 30 years. He served in Europe, the Middle East, and Afghanista...
The diversity of our participants in different settings and regions in the UK, as well as with different ranks and leadership roles, meant that we could not draw comparisons between all the different potential subgroups. The total sample size of professionals was adequate for this qualitative ...
While I watched Bean’s performance I didn’t think of Ned Stark or Boromir or Richard Sharpe. I felt I was witnessing the authentic heart-felt efforts of a man of faith – to care for his dying mother, to comfort a mother who has lost her son, to counsel a police officer trying to...
And, as luck would have it, he chose to reveal himself to humanity in a conference hall packed full of Conservative Party delegates, and the massed ranks of political journalism’s finest. This is what he had to say: For too many people, even a good education isn’t enough. There are...
intelligence officer at the Abu Ghraib prison. UPDATE – Those pesky rotten apples need sorting out, yes they do… UIP –Army kept whistle-blower in locked ward: The Army kept a soldier whistle-blower in a locked psychiatric ward at its top medical center for nearly two weeks despite ...
In 2004, Colonel Skripal was arrested by Russia’s federal security service FSB, charged with high treason, convicted to 13 years in prison and stripped of all ranks and awards. In 2010, he was handed over to the United States under an arrangement to exchange persons arrested on spying cha...
One of the reasons why the government is failing is because of a lamentable lack of talent in its ranks, or at least through the failure to promote those who do have a modicum of talent, There’s no shortage of opinion on the causes: pay, high barriers to entry, selection processes, ...
Will Graham Allen be the only Labour MP to break ranks? I hope not. Keep your ears out for the midday news items today and get in touch with your local MP. Now. Find out if they plan on listening to your voice or their master’s. UPDATE – Alternatively, you may wish to take par...
‘You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.’ G. I. Gurdjieff Colin Wilson’sbiography ofGeorge Ivanovitch Gurdjieffserves as a tremendous introduction to the lif...