Useful links to a couple of other articles. Not guilty of helping 7/7 bombers, but two of them convicted of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training.

Included because article has some estimates of revenue in it. Murdoch Press will sensationalise it tomorrow, I expect!

“We’re the spikier version of climate rush”…one of those quotes that has to be here to stay! Apparently Tesco’s was offering air miles for energy efficient light bulbs…who runs their marketing department? Jeremy Clarkson?

Sort of book review of “How to Break a Terrorist”. Applying police interview techniques rather than sadistic spook methods. Its an interesting article, suggesting that torture is counter-productive in many different ways.

Quote from CEO of McAfee, via the Murdoch Times. The article admits that the purpose of the conference is to get us all to buy antivirus software. Bit short on analysis, but thats journalism, folks!

This just turned up on my gmail page. I hope I have readers out there who might want to find out more! Deadline 31st May

This is Russia…lose your car, go to the police, get laughed at, go to a website supposed to be run by thieves, get scammed. There was a similar website for stolen property in the UK, but I dont know what happened to it. The media never followed up the story…

Johann Hari continues a series of think pieces challenging orthodoxy.

This is one of those events that make me uncomfortable. Have to see what pans out, but the great fear always was that these “terrorism” powers would be used against dissidents and on behalf of industrialists/private enterprise. Looks awfully like that in this case, but let’s see who gets brought to court and for what. … WERE POLICE SPIES BEHIND MASS ARREST OF ACTIVISTS?

Figures obtained by Guardian under Freedom of Information Act. Argument appears to be that more children are being taken into care and more are going missing from care. Not sure that the argument hangs together, but 957 “picked up by local authorities”, 400 from Afghanistan and 200 from Africa, in the last 8 months of … CHILD TRAFFICKING INTO BRITAIN ACCELERATING