Theresa May has embraced Gigabit Britain. How will her ministers ensure delivery?

When the Prime Minister used her closing conference speech to say it is “just not right” that “half of people living in rural areas, and so many small businesses, can’t get a decent broadband connection” we knew something really had changed. Martyn Warwick saw alarm bells for BT when she added that her administration is…

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Broadband at the Party Conferences: why it matters

Without a surge of investment in “future ready” fibre and wireless networks next spring, the UK will fall behind France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, let alone Scandinavia and the Pacific Rim before the Brexit negotiations are complete.  If so, Brexit might indeed be the disaster the Remoaners claim.  By contrast we could leapfrog the rest…

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The 50% e-Crime rise and Yahoo revelations show how right the CMS Select Committee was

In July we learned that 10% of the UK population have been the victims of e-Crime – albeit nearly always reimbursed, having “only” suffered the hassle of a refused card and a couple of days struggle to get the cash to survive until they received a new card.  Earlier this week we learned that on-line…

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What pool of top cybersecurity talent? It does not exist.

I was struck by a recent bleat that Whitehall is not “cool” enough to attract top cybersecurity talent. There is no pool of “top cyber security talent”. There are ten vacancies for every candidate. And the quality and motivation of many of the candidat… Continue reading What pool of top cybersecurity talent? It does not exist.