2011
31
Mar
A female security guard (dog handler) was been arrested on Tuesday in Pudding Mill Lane, near the Olympic stadium site, on suspicion of possessing explosives.Scotland Yard said that the woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of a “very small amo…
2011
21
Mar
Organisers of the London 2012 Olympics, on the pretext of “security”, are considering banning spectators from bringing mobile phones and picnics to Olympics events.Flasks, thermoses and larger quantities of food will all be banned.Liquids of more than …
2010
18
Jan
Lord West (a Home Office Minister) has reassured a House of Lords sub committee that the London Olympics are safe from being hit by sewage travelling at “40 miles an hour”.I am at a loss to understand why sewage would suddenly shoot out onto the site. …
2009
16
Nov
It is “interesting” to note that, despite the Olympics 2012 being the greatest security threat to this country since the Second World War (not my words, but Lord West’s), Olympics organisers are recruiting teenagers to guard the games.London Organising…
2009
13
Nov
Admiral Sir Alan West, Britain’s Security Minister, told a London conference today that London faces the largest security challenge since World War II when it hosts the 2012 Olympics.The terrorism threat level will likely rise to severe, ie an attack i…
2009
5
Aug
Kevan Gosper, a member of the International Olympic Committee, has said that London faces the “toughest time – short of wartime” to stage the 2012 Games.Errmmm, I thought that these games were meant to be “fun”?Olympic Medals won during the Beijing 200…
2009
30
Jun
Photographers wishing to take pictures of the Olympic construction site in East London have been warned they will be questioned if suspected of photographing ’security operations’. Amateur photographer Dr Patrick Green found this out to his cost on 14 …
2009
8
Jun
It seems that we may be taking one step further to becoming a police state. Emulating the Chinese, the police are studying Chinese surveillance tactics as they ready themselves for the 2012 London Olympics.One tactic being considered is the installatio…
2009
26
May
Seemingly the Royal Navy is on standby to deploy, what the government would have us believe is, the world’s most advanced destroyer to protect the 2012 Olympics from attack. One of the new Daring class of Type 45 destroyers will be deployed in the Tham…
2009
27
Apr
David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, will warn that the London 2012 Olympic Games are at risk of a “cyber attack”. Blunkett will give the warning during his opening address to the Infosec annual conference at Olympia this Tuesday, and will go on …