The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory opinion on climate change and (for some reason) military cyber operations. Apparently they’re linked…
The opinion states that countries must give greater weight to environmental concerns when conducting cyber warfare. As one analyst puts it:
“With respect to cyber operations, many such operations might have impacts on the environment: cutting power to military installations that may also impact civilian infrastructure controlling the environment; shutting down government and military systems that share information regarding environmental controls, such as garbage and sewage collection; and with the greater inclusion of cyber to facilitate AI targeting systems, the impact of targeting operations on the environment more generally. In each of these cases, a proportionality analysis would certainly need to be completed by the planners and commanders of such operations.”
Massively slowing down the UK’s cyber capabilities…
The UK Government can ignore ICJ advisory opinions – they’re not binding – but under the reign of Starmer and Hermer, Labour took an advisory opinion on the status of the Chagos islands to the extreme. Burnham would be well advised to ditch Labour’s bonkers obsession with international law…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”