Bruce Oliver Newsome, Ph.D.

Practical skills and applied knowledge in defense, security, and risk management
  
  
  
BLOGS & OP-EDS
 
RISK MANAGEMENT
A Berkeley expert assesses personal security in on-edge America, 15 June 2016
The 6.5 Ts: Rationalising security and risk management strategies, March 2015
MH17: ​Ground threats to airliners, 19 July 2014
How can we better manage the risks of acquiring expensive technologies like IT? 12 February 2014
The many vectors by which somebody could obtain your private information, 20 January 2014
Managing "insider threats", 6 January 2014
How to get started in managing operational risks, 9 December 2013
Whom to audit? Whose security and risk management should you be auditing? 25 November 2013
What's the difference between a hazard and a threat? 11 November 2013
Risk analysis or risk assessment? Solving contradictory language and practices, 4 November 2013
​Strategies for managing risk and security, 28 October 2013
 
COUNTER-TERRORISM & HOMELAND SECURITY
Theresa May's hypocrisy on Huawei, 13 June 2019
Huawei: Never mind the dangers, count the cash, 19 May 2019
Crime fighters should catch villains, not lobby the public for money, 17 May 2019
Huawei and the Cameron connection, 9 May 2019
Huawei affair is blow against special relationship, 8 May 2019
Why Theresa May put Huawei before security, 3 May 2019
Blame fake conservatives for Britain's law and disorder, 23 April 2019
London Heathrow: lax, lazy, and self-satisfied, 15 April 2019
The myths of right-wing terrorism, 17 March 2019
International cyber strategy and coercion, 19 October 2018
Cyber threats to nuclear weapons, 30 July 2018
Why not stop-and-search?, 3 April 2018
Theresa May falls short on response to Russian state-terrorism, 14 March 2018
Counter-terrorism needs to recognize the complexity of newest terrorism, 16 January 2018
​Countering violent extremism needs to shift from community engagement to law enforcement, 19 July 2017
The government must get real about counter-terrorism strategy, 7 July 2017
​The newest terrorism: Why terrorism is getting riskier, 28 June 2017
Why the latest wave of terrorism will get worse before it gets better, 21 June 2017
Nieuwe terroristen zijn veel ideologischer en moordlustiger, 12 June 2017
Manchester: The newest terrorism, and the future of terrorism, 24 May 2017
Defeating the Islamic State in the fifth dimension, 16 September 2016
The European Union is NOT good for British security, 12 March 2016
Surviving new terrorist attacks in 10 steps, 18 November 2015
Terrorism in Paris: Hard lessons for soft borders, 14 November 2015
How to defeat ISIS (and why it probably won't happen), 2 March 2015
What should Britain do about its Jihadists? 28 August 2014
The Boston bombers fit the American Jihadi profile, 30 April 2013
A newer strategy against newer terrorism, 27 June 2012
American suicide terrorism, 21 February 2012
From extrajudicial killing to judicial prosecution, 13 February 2012
​Suicide terrorism is inevitable in the US, experts say, 18 July 2005

INTELLIGENCE & COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Artificial intelligence and war, 20 July 2018
Europe versus Russia: Unity before security, 26 March 2018
Theresa May falls short in her response to Russian state-terrorism, 14 March 2018
Insider threats, 6 January 2014
Five misconceptions about US cyber espionage, 5 November 2013

FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS​
Trump's lessons for Theresa May over border control, 8 June 2019
Huawei: Never mind the dangers, keep counting the cash, 19 May 2019
How Tony Blair gets it deliberately wrong about Brexit, Farage, and the Right Wing, 14 May 2019 
​Huawei and the Cameron connection, 9 May 2019
Huawei affairs deals blow to US-UK special relationship, 8 May 2019
Why Theresa May put Huawei before security, 3 May 2019
Britain is now ruled by civil servants, 2 May 2019
The fantasy of an EU 'customs arrangement', 25 April 2019
Brexit is now a fight against British authoritarianism too, 22 April 2019
Brexit is lost in Remainers' false choices, 5 April 2019
Please go, Mrs. May: Five ways in which you must leave, 4 April 2019
Parliament's soft Brexits are slippery slopes to Remain, 2 April 2019
Purgatory here we come, 31 March 2019
Prejudicial reporting of the Brexit Day that never was, 30 March 2019
May's Withdrawal Agreement: Third time wrong, 29 March 2019
Parliament's Brexit: What it means and what happens next, 28 March 2019
Brexit delay covers up unlawful unreadiness, 27 March 2019
Theresa May has moved beyond dishonesty to despotism, 25 March 2019
Trading May for her deal makes no sense, 24 March 2019
Brexit now is better than later or never, 24 March 2019
Elite ignores Brexit law, 23 March 2019
Brexit's four-way blame game, 22 March 2019
Call May's bluff, Brexiteers, 22 March 2019
Understanding the latest Brexit double-speak, 22 March 2019
Theresa May is not offering a "deal", 18 March 2019
Scaredy-cat Parliament can't learn Brexit, 15 March 2019
Theresa May degrades executive government, 13 March 2019
The shameful truth about May's backstop "deal", 12 March 2019
Theresa May's crimes against Brexit reality, 10 March 2019
Remainers cause and exploit Brexit unreadiness, 1 March 2019
May's no-leave, no-deal Brexit, 25 February 2019
May's disingenuous Brexit reboot, 17 February 2019
Trump's bi-polar State of the Union explained, 6 February 2019
Hypocrisies of the Brexit backstop, 1 February 2019
Putinism and EU federalism: What's the difference? 25 January 2019
Wrong Brexit rejected for wrong reasons, 16 January 2019
Myths of Brexit: The Uncivil War, 11 January 2019
Projects Fear, Fable, and Fig-leaf, 4 January 2019
Explaining May's Brexit betrayal in 1,000 words, 7 December 2018
Spotting the fakery in Theresa May's Brexit pledges, 30 November 2018
May's greatest delusion: ending EU jurisdiction, 20 November 2018
May's spin of her Brexit is dishonest, 17 November 2018
Fake Brexit predicts never Brexit, 14 November 2018
Theresa May's Brexit betrayal will end in ten years' oblivion for the Conservative Party, 31 October 2018
Theresa May's hypocrisy on critical discourse, while refusing arguments about Chequers, 5 October 2018
Inside Remain's dissonant and dishonest echo-chamber, 28 September 2018
Chequers won support for wrong reasons, 21 September 2018
Clean Brexit: Why Leaving the EU still Makes Sense, 9 September 2018
Britain's furtive defence integration with the EU, 17 August 2018
Why is Britain's elite failing at Brexit? 16 July 2018
Theresa May's Brexit promises are improbable to impossible, 13 July 2018
Theresa May's Brexit proposal is both soft and dishonest, 7 July 2018
Up close and personal with a farcical Brexit debate, 2 July 2018
My interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg on Brexit and leadership, 1 July 2018
Tony Blair's five absurdities of immigration, 29 June 2018
European integrationists and social justice warriors, 22 June 2018
Save Britain from Brexit quackery, 15 June 2018
Bluffer's Guide to Brexit, 12 June 2018
Britain's increasing childishness on Brexit, 8 June 2018
George Soros is dishonest and delusional, 1 June 2018
Brexit, Remainers, and Hypocritical Subversion, 26 May 2018
Brexit means Brexit? Not in this Parliament, 18 May 2018
Why can't Theresa May learn from her mistakes? 11 May 2018
What the local elections really mean for Brexit, 8 May 2018
Rudd takes the fall for May's incompetence, 1 May 2018
​Britain's immigration contradiction: between political promise and policy change, 22 April 2018
Why don't Remainers campaign for a reformed EU? 15 April 2018
What is the argument for a second Brexit referendum?, 8 April 2018
Britain's counter-productive and wasteful foreign aid, 7 April 2018
Forget the spin of victory, the latest Britain-EU interim deal defers or ignores most issues, 3 April 2018
Europe versus Russia: Unity before Security, 25 March 2018
Brexit Transition Deal: Conservatives rally around the flag, Remainers are left as the only critics, 24 March 2018
​The Guardian's Brexit hypocrisy, 22 March 2018
Brexit procrastination predicts capitulation, 18 March 2018
Theresa May falls short in her response to Russian state-terrorism, 14 March 2018
​Theresa May will be the death of the Conservative Party, 11 March 2018
Britain still needs a post-Brexit trade policy, nearly two years after referendum, 10 March 2018
May's new speech on Brexit is uselessly contradictory, 4 March 2018
The Guardian newspaper is hypocritically stupid on Brexit, 28 February 2018
Theresa May plays wag the dog on European security, 22 February 2018
Britain doesn't need a new EU security agreement, whatever Theresa May and EUROPOL pretend, 18 February 2018
The five myths about Brexit's "hard borders," 12 February 2018
Brexit versus fascism, 5 February 2018
Immigration is a national choice not an international law, 1 February 2018
Leave now and give us certainty on Brexit!, 29 January 2018
Theresa May is a modern day Neville Chamberlain, 22 Jenuary 2018
Brexit is a repudiation of left-wing populism, not a right-wing populist conspiracy, 15 January 2018
Tony Blair's arguments abuse logic and evidence in favor of pathos, 8 January 2018 
Adonis' barmy Brexit-bashing is partly the fault of the government's contradictory policy, 31 December 2017
Downing Street is scuppering its own negotiating position by failing to extol the virtues of Brexit, 27 December 2017
May's disingenuous Brexit vision, 16 December 2017
Theresa May's Brexit doesn't mean Brexit: We're not sovereign, still paying, more uncertain, less stable, 16 December 2017
Without reform, the EU is too unstable to be worth £40 billion, 22 November 2017 
Brexit and instability, 28 January 2017
Could the Brexit unite Ireland? 19 July 2016
Britain will leave the EU: What else is predictable? 24 June 2016
Americans would choose Brexit, 19 June 2016
The European Union is NOT good for British security, 12 March 2016
​How to defeat ISIS (and why it probably won't happen), 2 March 2015
Churchill as war leader: Myths and realities, 5 February 2014
The withering of a once special relationship, 17 August 2010
Democracy's war problem, 18 November 2009 

ECONOMICS
Europe's crisis, America's lessons, 24 February 2012
Failed Britain's uncomfortable lessons for American finances, 14 February 2012

HEALTHCARE & MEDICINE
"Independent" "blame-less" healthcare: British government still fails at managing health risks, 28 November 2017
Exposed! The PHSO's secret attempts to spin out of my criticisms, 20 November 2017
The Key Problem with the NHS is not money or culture, it's accountability, 13 August 2017
British Health Department must handle complaints over healthcare, 6 April 2015
Unaccountability is bad for healthcare and democracy 31 March 2015
The NHS is unregulated, and patients practically carry all the risks, 3 July 2014
The incestuous, unjust, and ineffective regulation of British healthcare, 27 September 2013
​Is the British healthcare a model for the US? Current scandals suggest not, 7 September 2013

RESEARCH, EDUCATION, & TRAINING
Purpose versus pomposity - the battle of the history festivals, 23 June 2019
Students swindled by useless degrees and false advertising, 4 June 2019
Critical conservatism versus educated liberalism, 20 October 2017
"Sense About Science" is an agenda-drive partisan lobbyist pretending to advocate for science, 26 October 2016
The Campaign for Real Social Science, 28 August 2015
What Rolling Stone magazine should learn from social science, 11 April 2015
Declining standards in British education, 16 July 2012
Game On: Does digital training encourage trigger-happy cowboys? 4 February 2012
Choosing the right experiential training, 1 January 2008.

DOMESTIC POLITICS
Boris wins it - for now, 10 July 2019
Responsibility, duty, and the family: bedrocks of conservatism, 26 June 2019
Tory Rory Stewart runs out of hot air, 21 June 2019
Tory leadership debate round 2: Now featuring Boris Johnson, 19 June 2019
Tory hopefuls do their worst in first televised Conservative Party leadership debate, 17 June 2019
A brief history of conservatism, before the Tories loused it up, 16 June 2019
Save us from Rory Stewart, the fakest of fake conservatives, 15 June 2019
What chance a true conservative leading the Conservative Party, 14 June 2019
We've never had a worse Tory premier than Theresa May, 30 May 2019
How Tony Blair gets it deliberately wrong about Farage and the Right Wing, 14 May 2019
Huawei affair triggers another Tory civil war, 7 May 2019
Britain is now ruled by civil servants, 2 May 2019
The myths of "no fault" divorce, 10 April 2019
What sort of democracy is this? 2 April 2019
Britain's new anti-independence group, 21 February 2019
Trump's bi-polar State of the Union explained, 6 February 2019
Conservative Party must save itself - by splitting, 21 December 2018
Theresa May should go, have gone already, never been chosen, 12 December 2018
Theresa May is taking Conservative Party into 10 years of oblivion, 31 October 2018
Theresa May's hypocrisy on left-wing discourse, 5 October 2018
Is democracy failing? 21 August 2018
What conservatives can learn from Jeremy Corbyn, 10 August 2018
My interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP, 1 July 2018
Why can't Theresa May learn from her mistakes? 11 May 2018
Rudd takes the fall for May's incompetence, 1 May 2018
Theresa May will be the death of the Conservative Party, 11 March 2018
Theresa May is a modern day Neville Chamberlain, 22 January 2018
Critical conservatism versus educated liberalism, 20 October 2017
When "PROTEST! is wrong: UC Berkeley's hypocrisy on free speech, learning, democracy, & safety, 2 February 2017
Stop blaming "populism" for everything, 11 December 2016
Is Britain heading back to the 1970s? 5 May 2015
Britain needs more accountability, 4 May 2014
If you find yourself agreeing with UKIP's policies, are you racist? 29 April 2015
Great British reforms under great international attention, 12 July 2012

SOCIETY, CULTURE, & MEDIA
The Guardian newspaper sees racism everywhere - because it's prejudiced, 4 December 2018
Diversity ruins the media, 16 November 2018
Truth is first casualty of BBC Blitz, 8 August 2018
BBC History is socialist fiction, 6 August 2018
The Guardian newspaper is hypocritically stupid on Brexit, 28 February 2018
Another BBC report whitewashes the BBC's mishandling of science, 10 August 2016
The news media triumph again, 21 April 2015
Despite scandals, news media accountability is missing from Britain's national election, 17 April 2015
What Rolling Stone magazine should learn from social science, 11 April 2015​