Ewen Speed and Russell Mannion correctly identify several contours of the challenges for health policy in what it is useful to think of as a post-democratic era. I argue that the problem for public health is not populism per se, but rather the distinctive populism of the right coupled with the failure of the left to develop compelling counternarratives. Further, defences of ‘science’ must be te...

In this note we document a case of malware-based electronic surveillance of a political organisation by the agents of a nation state. While malware attacks are not new, two aspects of this case make it worth serious study. First, it was a targeted surveillance attack designed to collect actionable intelligence for use by the police and security services of a repressive state, with potentially f...

Poisoning attacks can disproportionately influence model behaviour by making small changes to the training corpus. While defences against specific poisoning do exist, they in general not provide any guarantees, leaving them potentially countered novel attacks. In contrast, examining worst-case behaviours Certified Defences make it possible guarantees of robustness a sample adversarial modifying...