I would be surprised if it was Russian hackers. IT systems fail all the time, for a wide variety of reasons. Most organisations of any considerable scale will have dozens of different IT systems that… (View Post)

The Met Office does regular polling to find out how many people are aware of weather warnings, what they think of the forecasts, etc. I guess someone has argued that not enough people are hearing abo… (View Post)

You have to be careful with that sort of thing and only use it very rarely, so that it will be effective when it is most necessary. I think it's borderline in this case. The orange warning for Storm … (View Post)

What makes you say that? Having just read Ed Miliband's speech from yesterday on nuclear power, I don't see anything particularly alarming. It's perhaps frustrating that the pace of decision-making o… (View Post)

When Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO in 2022 they were given firm defence commitments by the US, Britain and other countries, precisely to dissuade an attack on them before they had NATO memb… (View Post)