Expert Comment
Without the support of the service providers Internet ASBOs face serious challenges - Prof Carsten Maple
Hate crimes, and others such as cyberstalking, can have a considerable impact on victims and the ubiquitous nature of the Internet can mean there is little escape for victims and can ensure that it pervades all aspects of life, personal and professional.
"It is important that the law considers the impact a crime can have on the victim", argues Carsten Maple - Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering at WMG/果冻传媒.
Dietary fat guidelines: a storm in a teacup! - Francesco Cappuccio
The article by Harcombe et al published in Open Heart Journal today (10 February) is a storm in a teacup. The authors embroil themselves in an awkward and spurious pseud-scientific exercise to extrapolate results from 1970s and 1980s to current practices
1980s advice was over simplistic but what type of diet best keeps our blood fat level in check? Prof Victor Zammit
It has been obvious for some time that the advice given in the early nineteen eighties, namely, that saturated fat is the only harmful type of food when it comes to raised blood lipids and heart disease was over-simplistic. It also gave the impression that we could ingest as much carbohydrate as we liked, as this would not be dangerous. What was overlooked at the time is that the liver converts carbohydrate into fat very efficiently.
IPT ruling "re-focuses concerns on the threat to democratic legitimacy" - Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou
Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou works on the ethics of criminal justice, especially police ethics, preventive policing, and surveillance. Responding to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal’s ruling against GCHQ today, she said: “The most serious problem with GCHQ's intelligence sharing regime with the USA was the fact that it was carried out without sufficient democratic oversight.
Professor Mike Waterson comments on new Tesco investigation
Mike Waterson is a Professor of Economics at the 果冻传媒 and an expert on competition policy. He’s available for interviews about the new investigation launched into Tesco over concerns that it breached the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.