News - Government calls on UK boffins to help fight the war against terror

[HEXUS]

Both industry and academia have a significant role to play in countering terrorism in the UK, says Home Office.

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[MSIC]

I always wanted to be a boffin. I got to my second year in Boffin school, but didn't fancy the placement year in Boffington. These days, i'm just a boffin-wannabe.

[kalniel]

Excellent. Stop trying to cut our pay and making us take jobs abroad then.

[aidanjt]

I only have this to say...

[funke_munke]

Please god no one help them with biometrics technology!

[abaxas]

Maybe it's time for us 'Boffins' to kick out our current psycopathic leadership? They've done more damage than Garry Glitter would in a primary school assembly.


/me checks outside for black Range Rover.

[Saracen]

Maybe it's time for us 'Boffins' to kick out our current psycopathic leadership? They've done more damage than Garry Glitter would in a primary school assembly.

Agreed. Though it remains to be seen if the replacement would be an improvement in that regard. Part of the problem is that we know what the Tories say while they're in opposition, but politicians have a habit of finding excuses to do something else once they actually get in the driving seat. You have to judge politicians by what they do not what they say, and by the time you find that out, it's too late 'cos you've elected them for five years.

There's one simple measure for reducing terrorism ..... stop trying to treat various far-flung parts of the world as ours to interfere in as we like, and get over the fact that we're no longer a world-leading geo-political power. I don't just mean stop invading places like Iraq and Afghanistan, especially seeing as Afghanistan was a terrorist training camp, but ask ourselves why Islamic terrorists have us in their sights? Ask who was responsible for poking their nose into the Middle East and ending up creating Israel? Who was responsible for poking their nose into India and ended up creating Pakistan and especially setting up the Kashmir problem?

We are paying the price now in terrorism for playing geopolitical superpower games in other people's homes back when we were a superpower, and don't seem to be able to grasp that screwing around over there decades ago is causing problems now, and that screwing around over there now will be causing problems for decades to come, especially given that our empire and superpower days are a faded and jaded memory.