Kazakh leader’s £100m London bolthole

A tailor’s Tale It all started when a taxi driver told me he had recently had a Russian tailor in the back of his taxi who had asked him to take him to a house on the Bishop’s Avenue in North London. The then President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, had …

UK security outside the EU

In our age of insecurity, and threat, it is easy to make the assumption that security interests trump all. But is it so simple? The status of the UK’s relationship to Europol and to other European police and intelligence agencies remains uncertain as the date for departure from the European …

Terrorism update

Very interesting disclosure by Amber Rudd that there may be no connection between Parsons Green bomber and IS. This confirms my previous view that the tube bomb was uncharacteristically amateurish for the terror group  While we know nothing at this moment about the nature of the bomber, lone actors who …

The case for a new discipline in fighting terrorist finance

The term is as emotive as it is ominous. ‘Terrorist finance’ sends a shiver through any manager of a bank, any compliance officer, any police or customs official. The use of your bank by a terrorist to finance his activity is unthinkable. The opprobrium from the public and powers-that-be is …

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