Prof David Stupples

Military Intelligence Analysis & Electronic Warfare Research @CityUniLondon. My views are my own.

[Prof David Stupples @DavidWStupples]

Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda - BBC News: well good for ASDA. I for one, where possible will not shop at Waitrose - a loss of only £100/week. The store should accept that it should do its bit in the communities it serves https://t.co/1Ehs5PjFda

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Australia’s oldest university has secured the biggest philanthropic contribution in its 175-year history with a $100m donation to boost disadvantaged women’s enrolments in STEM. https://t.co/YQ6mSYsNFe

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AstraZeneca: Government hits back in funding row with pharmaceutical giant - BBC News, it is interesting to note that neither Labour or Conservative Science Ministers have a background in science https://t.co/F3Y94lrEAm

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South Korea plane crash: Jeju Air disaster at Muan International Airport kills at least 177 people - BBC News: no undercarriage, no flaps, no airbrakes and no undercarriage. Possibly a hydraulics failure? https://t.co/mbZj26XFJx

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https://t.co/WLnvnb9zRw, seems to be a Russian Pantsir-S1 (NATO designation SA-22 Greyhound). It uses both missiles and cannons. It is like that cannons were used when the aircraft was at low altitude.

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https://t.co/VXgiB3PrPi, looking closely at the damage, I would suggest the authorities investigate an air defence missile involvement.

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@SkyNews why are we not seeing Sean Bell and Michael Clark presenting analysis on Syrian Islamist Incursions?

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Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks - BBC News - this sounds very much like a Cyber Warfare incident. https://t.co/0LqppiKVjL

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@1pcornwell Get well soon Patricia - keep on writing.

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An excellent appointment - the last incumbent had an Arts background https://t.co/Azlq8cVa0l

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Manchester Airport latest: Flights expected to restart later today after cancellations from power cut - BBC News: Too many managers today concentrate on counting profit and not on developing and practicing crisis plans - I sympathize with the passengers. https://t.co/hEozINvdpr

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Starliner: Boeing launches long-delayed astronaut capsule - BBC News https://t.co/0B3nHrH9kU

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A possible outcome of the Post Office Inquiry

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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft: A guide - BBC News https://t.co/gyoWUklRTw

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https://t.co/D2JEairipK - good science

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It also brings into question the integrity of Post Office lawyers - 700 prosecutions and no lawyer questioned the system. Further, the Post Office Auditors - no money being stolen and money being taken from sub-postmasters, where did that go - magic!

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Read the attached statement made by ex Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw for why the Post Office should insist a 47 year old mother and sub postmaster, Jacqueline Macdonald, should be found guilty of theft and not just false accounting. It is shocking.

He says that if she was done only for false accounting, the integrity of the precious Fujitsu Horizon system would be undermined in future cases, and the appeals of wrongly convicted sub postmasters would have credibility.

Bradshaw had his way. The judge in the trial agreed with him. This woman of no previous convictions was sentenced to 18 months in prison, for theft and false accounting.

The point however is that Bradshaw was an employee. The big question is who further up the management ladder incentivized him to pursue sub postmasters, most of whom were innocent of any wrongdoing, while denying all the many flaws in Horizon - and to pursue them through the courts in such a single minded and determined way.

This was just one of the many harrowing disclosures in today’s profoundly depressing session of Wyn Williams’s statutory inquiry into the Horizon scandal. It has been impossible to watch without feeling fury and great sadness at the brutal treatment of sub postmasters.

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Watch SpaceX launch its 'mega rocket'

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