I’m delighted to see that the High Court has found, this morning, that Mrs May’s government cannot trigger Article 50 on its own. As far as I can see, referendums in the UK are only advisory, not binding – which …
I’ve talked, for some years, about the disconnect between managements stating that cyber security is on their agenda, or under control, and the rapidly rising number of data breaches, as reported in multiple surveys and reports, as well as increasingly …
An ‘ad hominem’ attack is a rhetorical device that attempts to invalidate an argument by undermining the credibility of the argument’s proponent: kill the messenger in the hope that the message will also die. In its modern form, the objective …
The Chancellor of the Exchequer today says Britain will strike back at foreign cyber threats and that cyber criminals can strike everyone, from the bedroom to the board room. He’s right. Everyone – and businesses most of all – has …
GDPR comes into force in May 2018. The UK will still be a member of the EU at that point and, even if Mrs May hadn’t pledged that the UK would be a fully-functioning member right up to the point …
Most businesses will make the best of Brexit. From a broader perspective, however, vandals are using the Brexit vote to destroy Britain. The referendum was in law directional only; neither the government nor the Brexiteers had or have a coherent …
Our internal position on GDPR and Brexit was, on 27th June 2016: The key thing, from a practical point of view, is that negotiations to leave the EU are unlikely to be completed before – at the earliest – October …
This is what I said to my staff on 27 June 2016, following the referendum result: It’s now clear that very little is clear about what happens after the Brexit vote on Thursday. The referendum result is, technically, only ‘advisory’ …
This is what I said to my staff prior to the EU Referendum: We vote on 23rd June, as a country, for whether we remain in the EU or leave it. How you vote is of course a matter for …
Last Thursday (12th December) the British Government issued a statement on the progress against the objectives set out in the UK Cyber Security Strategy. Unsurprisingly, making cyberspace safer for UK business remains a top priority. In order to achieve that …
