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4 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Copyedits arrived for 240k word book. One week to turn it around.

Proofs arrived for Disrupt and Deny arrived. To do at my “earliest convenience”.

And just realised today is essay deadline day for my module.
And now nursery have sent my daughter home because she has a slight cough.

When will this madness end???
And now my son (with no symptoms) has been sent home 30 mins later...
And... this has ended up as an inadvertent thread on academia during a pandemic Image
UPDATE: my daughter's test unsurprisingly came back negative. she has a slight cold. that didn't stop nursery from treating her like a park bench in salisbury.

I've now lost 2 days of work to look after 2 healthy children, and worked nights to meet a pressing deadline. Enough!

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28 Dec 20
Lots of recent analysis plays up the importance of exposing hostile Russian intelligence activity as a core part of the Western response.

But this is flawed because exposure isn’t enough - and can backfire

Here’s what recent research tells us ... 🧵 1/7
Exposure isn’t “a switch”. To have consequences it requires revelation too: “a collective recognition that something has happened”. See @stamp in @SecDialogue 2/7

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
@ThomasEason_ in @BritJPIR similarly tells us that exposure needs to be accompanied by politicisation to have effect.

Exposure without narrative/coverage among target audience is inconsequential. Exposure is what observers make of it 3/7

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
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4 Sep 20
Turns out it’s the 50th anniversary of Allende’s election win in Chile.

Guess what?

The U.K. had a bash at covert action to undermine him too.

[short thread on how and why] 1/5
U.K. admission (incredibly rare to see):

“Because there is a v real danger that the communists might gain control of this country by constitutional means, we are concentrating on covert operations which we think could influence the result of the next election”

2/5
What did U.K. do?

- bribed radio producers to buy airtime
- meddled in trade union politics
- influenced universities
- built up contacts in Christian Dems + “the left wing” parties

But all this was dwarfed by CIA activity. So why bother to take risk???

3/5
Read 6 tweets
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17 Jun 20
Want to know about a UK covert operation (just declassified)? [SHORT THREAD]

It’s 1966 and Gibraltar is soon to hold a referendum on its sovereignty

UK knows it will win but uses #disinformation to punish Spain for forcing the ref

1/5
First, 🇬🇧 created a fake group: the Front for the Liberation of the Spanish Maghreb.

It delivered a (fake?) petition to the UN calling out Spanish colonialism in Morocco

2/5
Next, it created another fake group: the Organisation for the Expulsion of the Spanish Colonialists

Invoking “God’s will”, it warned 🇪🇸 : “we Arabs ... will fight with all our strength and with every weapon we can lay our hands on.”

3/5
Read 5 tweets
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2 Feb 19
Interesting addition to ways UK secretly intervened in Vietnam.

UK used intell assets to resolve dilemma of domestic opposition to Vietnam but needing US support on a range of other issues. So UK intell:
1: covered for US intell in Europe in order to free up US capacity in Vietnam
2: GCHQ provided loads of signals intell from monitoring stations in Hong Kong
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