Dr Paul Robertson

This is the soapbox worth dying upon! Advice that has the buzz of sounding good but isn't actually good turns the heads of time-poor leaders and clouds EVERYTHING else.

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants You all deserved better.

Remarkable open letter from Bill Burns. "If intelligence analysts at the CIA saw our rivals engage in this kind of great-power suicide, we would break out the bourbon. Instead, the sound we hear is of champagne glasses clinking in the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai." theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Continuing a prior chat - do you have Rabbits on your kindle? And if so, have you signed your copy? #wheresmysignedbook

I’d like to see an all rookie podium… Bearman, Hadjar, Alonso 🤣

YouTube video by xkcd's What If? What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

I don’t say this lightly: I think the latest from @xkcd.com might be the best YouTube video I’ve ever seen. (3m37s)

Good luck with the wasteland you emerge into later... ☢️

Wow, those are trade deals that some people would be very proud of right now

The cup of kindness runeth over here... but if it was me in North America then Venezuela is toast, followed by most of the south and onwards from there...

Does it have a submarine in it? Perhaps dairy in origin?

Predictions? Or a retro imagining of our current clusterduck?

I’m not convinced even Bob can actually fix it…

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Vive La France

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

A breathtakingly brilliant piece by Edward Docx. Absolutely magnificent. What a writer.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

What you didn't know you needed on this historic day is Episode 7 of the SANS Cyber Leaders' Podcast, where James Lyne and I talk about the worst thing in cyber security - FUD - the nonsense that spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt, instead of real security

www.sans.org/podcasts/cyb...

does that officially qualify as a bloodbath? I mean you dropped 10 points...

Awaiting bloodbath... still waiting...

“Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

Come on Jack, pick it up!

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If you are in cybersecurity repost this so we can all follow each other 😬

Love this! An human era in 8 minutes... nicely done sir!

Is it since I arrived? Coincidence??

No Brannigans?!? I’m aghast, disconsolate, disappointed and (having looked in the cupboards twice) entirely lacking in crisps to satisfy my oddly pressing need for a potato based snack…

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It is still a bit tumbleweed-y isn't it... ?