Who is it that can keep London safe in the run-up to the Olympic Games?
If you have been tempted to answer either the ‘Metropolitan Police’ or the ‘Special Branch’, then you would have been wrong.
That is the view of the recently retired head of the Special Branch’s Muslim Contact Unit.
continued on the Centre for Social cohesion blog.
While Britain’s university lecturers and Vice Chancellors obdurately continue to refuse to offer any form of assistance in the fight against on-campus violent extremism, a trial currently underway in a Glasgow courtroom suggests that the problem towards which Britain's academics seem willing to turn a complacent blind eye could well extend much further than the University sector.
continued on the Centre for Social cohesion blog.
According to a report in today’s Times, the Public Accounts Committee has condemned the government for having ‘left itself “financially exposed” over the 2012 Olympic Games and at risk of letting costs spiral put of control’. The basis for its charge has been the government's having let the original Olympic budget treble to £9 billion.
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