Big brains gather to ponder future of UK security
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Ashdown, Robertson, to head panel of cops, spooks, peaceniks A group of high-profile political, academic, and military heavyweights will come together over the next 18 months to ponder the future direction of UK security strategy.â¦
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Britain's security is at risk because of a loss of self-confidence, says a leading defence think tank.
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A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying, amid concerns about a developing &quot;Big Brother&quot; society and its effects on individual freedoms and civil liberties.
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Security thinktank says Britain is becoming a soft touch in the fight against extremism
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There's new thinking at work among some of Al Qaeda's brains. How the British plot ties into the doctrine of a leading jihadi strategist known as Abu Musab al-Suri.
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Some think it's highly possible, so politicians are calling for tougher security regulations to deal with potential catastrophe that could arise from inadequately protected systems.
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British police are trying to monitor &quot;thousands&quot; of potential security suspects, the head of the anti-terrorism unit at London's Metropolitan Police said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday.
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BRITISH business is open to the threat of terror attack unless it works more closely with the Government to assess and counter active security risks, a former intelligence chief will tell the CBI today.
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Security experts consider easing  the estimate of the terrorist threat to the UK as six suspects are held.
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In a discussion that lasted for more than an hour, experts batted around a multitude of ideas that included wireless technology and the reason it will be so big, information security and assurance, and how to deal with budget tightening.
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Letters: Going deeper on the question of security and operating systems.
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LONDON - The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.    But the plight of the British construction worker and his two murdered American colleagues has also raised new concerns about terrorists' tremendous ability to set agendas in an Internet age that makes their messages - even in the form of shocking beheading videos - all but impossible to stop...
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Security is a very big and growing tech business. Cumulative private and public sector security spending in the U.S. is forecast to exceed &#36;1 trillion over the coming decade. The punditocracy has analogized this post-Sept. 11 trend to Cold War-era military spending; homeland security will be a short-term economic stimulus but, ultimately, like military spending, a drag on the nation's domestic production.
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Defence and foreign ministers arrive in Edinburgh to discuss the future of Afghanistan.
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New measures to fight crime, terror and drugs are at the heart of the UK Government's plans for the next year.
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The UK could "sleepwalk into a surveillance society" as a result of ID cards, the Information commissioner has warned. Send us your views.
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Three experts assess the terrorist organization's progress.