Crap placard awards (now open)

by | Apr 1, 2009


Please do send your crap placards to the team here at Global Dashboard. Some placards – like make love not leverage raised smiles – most, however, were woeful.  Your starter for ten, which I think should win for sheer laziness and hypocrisy (is that a pair of Levi’s and Reebok trainers on the protester?) is the following:

Author

  • Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.


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