Duncan Campbell

Brighton, Scotland

Freelance Investigative Journalist at Freelance

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Alison Halford obituary

2 months ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Duncan Campbell

Alison Halford in the 1980s, when she was assistant chief constable of Merseyside police. Photograph: Lynn Hilton/Mail On Sunday/ShutterstockAlison Halford, who has died aged 84, became Britain’s highest-ranking female police officer when, in 1983, she was appointed assistant chief constable of Merseyside.
UK cyber security damaged by “clumsy Home Office political censorship”

2 months ago | computerweekly.com | Duncan Campbell

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has secretly censored detailed public computer security guidance provided to barristers, solicitors and legal firms without explanation or announcement. The guidance, a web page and a seven-page PDF report called “Cyber Security Tips for barristers, solicitors, and legal professionals”, was removed from the Centre’s public website two weeks ago on 24 February.
All athletes are welcome to the Gay Games — Gay Games

2 months ago | gaygames.org | Duncan Campbell

Despite recent bans in the United States and ongoing discussions in several other countries about restricting participation of trans women in sports events, the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) stands in solidarity with all transgender and non-binary athletes The Federation of Gay Games will continue to stand firmly in allowing all athletes to participate and compete in the sport that they wish and in the gender that they choose to identify as.
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple

Feb 13, 2025 | computerweekly.com | Duncan Campbell

An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyberattack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a Home Office secret demand last month (reported by CW here, here and here) that Apple break the security protecting its Advanced Data Protection cloud security system to let British spies into anyone’s secure files.
Apple: British techies to advise on “devastating” UK global crypto power grab

Feb 10, 2025 | computerweekly.com | Duncan Campbell

TAB members contracts expired Enquiries by Computer Weekly have revealed that the Home Office has not been paying close attention to supporting or managing the Board membership. According to a 2022 government press release, the contract for the chair expired in August and the contracts for all but two listed TAB members expired last month.
‘Just a dishonest window cleaner’? Britain’s history of audacious cat burglars

Jan 2, 2025 | theguardian.com | Duncan Campbell

It was one of the stories of Christmas: the audacious theft of more than £10m in jewellery, designer handbags and cash from a mansion in St John’s Wood, north London. The heist was carried out by a man who climbed in through a second floor window and “moved like a cat” around the five-storey house, managing to avoid seven people before leaving with his haul.
Federation of Gay Games Narrows Host City Candidates for Gay Games XIII in 2030

Dec 4, 2024 | asianamericans.einnews.com | Duncan Campbell

Federation of Gay Games Narrows Host City Candidates for Gay Games XIII in 2030 The Federation of Gay Games has shortlisted Auckland, Denver, and Perth as finalists to host Gay Games XIII in 2030; final bids will be evaluated October 2025 SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, December 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- This weekend, the Federation of Gay Games took an important step toward determining the host city for Gay Games XIII in 2030.
Claud Cockburn and the birth of guerrilla journalism

Oct 12, 2024 | msn.com | Duncan Campbell

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‘A street-boy throwing stones at pompous windows’: Claud Cockburn and the birth of guerrilla journalism

Oct 12, 2024 | ca.style.yahoo.com | Duncan Campbell

The journalist Claud Cockburn in London in June 1945. Cockburn, using the alias Frank Pitcairn, was writing for the Daily Worker.Photograph: Russell Westwood/Popperfoto/Getty ImagesHe was described by Graham Greene as the greatest journalist of the 20th century and attacked by senator Joseph McCarthy as “one of the most dangerous ‘reds’ in the world”. In the 1930s he founded the Week, which exposed Nazi sympathisers in Britain, and interviewed Al Capone for the Times.
Why we need public analysts

Sep 23, 2024 | chemistryworld.com | Duncan Campbell

As the Association of Public Analysts winds up, Duncan Campbell reflects on the continued importance of the professionOn 7 August 1874, 25 public analysts attended a meeting in London, UK. They had come from as far afield as Yorkshire and Devon and, under the chairmanship of Theophilus Redwood, various resolutions were passed and the Society of Public Analysts formed.