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Mick Smith - Times Online - WBLG

Dilly Knox - A Forgotten Genius Re-Discovered

i recently featured a guest blog by mavis batey, who worked at bletchley park and has just published a biography of her boss there, the amazing dilly knox. the book, dilly: the man who broke enigmas, sets records straight about how the poles brilliantly broke the german armed forces enigma in 1932, long before the british even thought it worthwhile tryin... (315 天前)

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Degrees for Nurses: Another Stupid Idea from an Incr

it is wrongly claimed that if soldiering is the world’s oldest profession, then prostitution is the second oldest. every war that has ever been waged has shown - afghanistan just as much if not more than its predecessors - that if soldiering is the oldest profession then the second oldest must sadly be nursing. now we are told that before nurses can ten... (315 天前)

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Nimrod: Why Attack the Coroner?

the much lauded review by charles haddon-cave qc was so condemnatory of the ministry of defence that it is counter-intuitive to suggest any element of failure, but there was a very strange and self-contradictory attack on the work of the coroner andrew walker, whose verdict in may last year not only confirmed the failings in the aircraft first pointed ou... (315 天前)

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Dilly Knox: The Bletchley Park Expert on Enigma Ciph

this is a guest post from mavis batey, a former bletchley park codebreaker, who has just written a fascinating new book on her former boss dilly knox, who did the bulk of the british work on enigma (and no that wasn't alan turing, that's a myth. he did a lot of important work but on enigma, dilly was the master). ? normally an obituary in the times would... (315 天前)

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Letter from the Left Coast: The Fat Lady Finally Get

Ian Bowater, this blog's very own LA Correspondent, with some final thoughts on the presidential raceSo here it is – the last ever Letter From The Left Coast. It’s beenover a month since the last one but quite frankly nothing much hashappened. Oh… there was some Black Guy who got made President of theUnited States. I never saw that one coming. The ... (315 天前)

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Whistleblower Reveals Forces Computer Virus Linked t

The Ministry of Defence and a large number of RAF bases and Royal Navy ships have been hit by a computer "worm virus" that is alleged to have been sent to a Russian internet server. The allegations have been made to Conservative MP Mark Pritchard by a whistlebower inside the MoD who is concerned over its failure to take cyber security seriously. Pritchar... (315 天前)

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Gaza Attacks: Olmert's Warning to the Innocents Dama

There is no doubt that Hamas has provoked Israel in the last week since the end of the ceasefire with rocket attacks from Gaza onto Israeli territory, but the disproportionate response unleashed yesterday will do Israel nothing but harm. Commentators have suggested that retaliation would be difficult because there is an election going on in Israel, but t... (315 天前)

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