Whether its sports cars that turn into submarines, phones which electrocute people or bagpipe flame-throwers, everyone has their favourite James Bond spy gadget.
Whilst the technology expert portrayed most famously by Desmond Llewelyn in the Bond franchise is of course fictional, now you have the chance to be the real Q .
MI6, Britain s foreign intelligence service, is publicly advertising for a role which will see the successful applicant head up a team creating gadgets for Britain s real spies.
However, there appears to have been a mistake in the wording of the introduction to the advert, which was released by recruitment agency Saxton Bampfylde on MI6 s behalf.
The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd makes last summer’s Black Lives Matter mania in British institutions look even stranger. The British Museum, Oxbridge colleges, Sir Keir Starmer, football teams, government departments, Kew Gardens, the National Trust and numerous corporations indulged in various forms of self-abasement. Some ‘took the knee’. At the Ministry of Defence, the permanent secretary, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, broke professional political impartiality by emailing his staff about the ‘deep roots’ of ‘systemic racial inequality’ in Britain, and signing off with a BLM hashtag. He was subsequently promoted to be the UK National Security Adviser. It was never clear why, among the many dreadful injustices and atrocities in the world, this particular one required formal reaction or policy change from public bodies. If they start reacting to one horrible killing in Minneapolis, why not react to Chinese persecution of the Uighurs, the killings
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Investment Week is hosting its Global Emerging Markets Briefing at a pivotal time for investors as they start to position for the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, although risks remain.
During this interactive briefing, we will hear from a number of global emerging market managers about their response to the extraordinary events of the past year and their outlook for the rest of the year and beyond.
The managers will identify where they are seeing the biggest opportunities and risks at the moment in emerging markets and explain the role their strategies could play in client portfolios.
Attendees will also get the chance to network with peers, quiz our speakers, as well as benefit from CPD points
As far back as 2018, I voiced concerns in the FCPA Blog about the problems of rampant fraud in the UK. In a new report, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a distinguished British think tank founded by the Duke of Wellington, described the fraud threat as an epidemic that is “now a natio .