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The Drinks Bureau’s Award-Winning Shirley Temple. Fun Cocktails in a Can.  

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Award-winning ready-to-drink cocktail brand The Drinks Bureau has launched a fun and sweet cherry-licious ShirleyTemple (0% ABV) and vodka-based Dirty Shirley (5% ABV) cocktails. If you love, pink, fun, sweet things then we can recommend these fun cocktails and mocktails.

Whether you’re planning a cosy night in or celebrating with friends, The Drinks Bureau’s award-winning Shirley Temple and Dirty Shirley cocktails are the perfect pre-mixed cocktails. The Dirty Shirley, with its delicious blend of vodka, real cherry juice, ginger, lemon and bitters is scrumptiously sweet and zingy. The alcohol-free Shirley Temple provides all the flavour without the spirits – ideal for designated drivers or those looking for a non-alcoholic alternative. Both variants come in Instagram-worthy pink and red cans that capture the spirit of fun. Plus, with no mixing or measuring needed, you can spend less time playing bartender.

Frankie Snobel, The Drinks Bureau Founder, said: “Serving a seriously tasty cocktail couldn’t be easier with our fun and fabulous Shirley Temple and Dirty Shirley canned cocktails – just chill and enjoy!  Or if you’re feeling fancy, pour over ice, garnish with a cherry and serve!  They are mouth-watering, combining moreish cherry and a ginger zing for a refreshing and cheeky little sipper. ”

The Drinks Bureau’s premium cocktails have gained nationwide recognition with both the Dirty Shirley and Shirley Temple cocktails winning ‘GOLD’ in the 2023 Global RTD Masters. The full portfolio also includes the world-leading Spicy Margarita – crowned best ready-to-drink cocktail in the world last year at the Global RTD Masters in a blind taste test by industry judges – alongside delicious flavours such as Espresso Martini, Passion Fruit Martini, Lychee Martini, and Strawberry Daiquiri.

For more information on The Drinks Bureau’s range of cocktails, visit www.thedrinksbureau.com.

Why Cybersecurity Can Win the Fight Against Islamic Extremism By Cosmo Clark

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Cosmo Clark is a cybersecurity and cyber terrorism analyst and observer whose first novel, Blue Eyed Infidel, a satirical sci-fi thriller in the vein of Orwell’s 1984, hits the UK shelves this week. Here Clark (a pseudonym) argues that computers, not bombs, will win the war on terror.

What do you think is the best way to win an argument? When I was at primary school, John Biggers, the village bully, thought he had the answer: to punch me in the face. Hard.

But violence didn’t work in the playground and it doesn’t work in the real world, either. Invading Iraq and bombing ISIS in Syria might win a few headlines for politicians, but in the long term, all it really does is create more terrorists, and leads directly to more attacks here in the UK.

It is my firm view (and one shared by a wealth of academics) that technology, not bombs, will win the global war on terror.

1. In-APP-propriate action: why we should boost, not ban, encrypted chat apps

Extremists talk to each other using secretive, encrypted chat apps. That’s how they groom new members, organise attacks and keep out of the public eye.

Our kneejerk reaction to that has always been to shut these apps down. But that would be a big mistake. Banning one type of app (or making it less secure) will only lead to more. That is a battle that can never be won.

Instead, we should be encouraging their use; remember, loose lips have and always will sink ships. We should be using covert spyware to infiltrate the apps and identify the bad guys.

2. Jihadi Join: why UK spies should be posing as online extremists

Islamic extremists will never love the UK. They don’t feel loyalty to a passport, only to their God. Trying to force them into ‘being British’ or to ‘integrate’ is a total waste of time and money, and just helps them know what to say in order to disappear into our society.

Instead, we should talk to extremists online in ways that make sense to them. To start with, that will involve doing things which will seem completely counter-intuitive. Let’s say you are a jihadi who wants to blow himself up. If you create an online persona as someone who can help them make that bomb, it’ll be much easier to grab the perpetrator – and the rest of his terror cell – when the time comes.

3. Dead ringer: using deceased ISIS fighters to communicate with terror cells

Technology changes quickly, but we’ve got two exclusive advantages right now that we should be using more. Firstly, we must put more pressure on social media companies like Facebook and YouTube to track (rather than ban) and report on Islamic extremists using their platforms. That’s harder than you might think.

Secondly, we’ve got access to cool resources like artificial intelligence. My favourite idea is to create fake cyber-personalities, ‘chatbots’ if you like, which are smart enough to hold conversations with real-world Islamic extremists. To be genuinely believable, these cyber-personalities could actually appear to be real people. There are roughly 25,000 Islamic extremists in the UK, and about 1,000 British jihadis who went to fight for ISIS and who have since gone missing. If a few of those deceased individuals popped up online, they could be treated as heroes. Only those ‘in the know’ would ever know the truth.

Blue Eyed Infidel by Cosmo Clark is out now, priced £9.99 in paperback and £3.49 as an eBook, and is available at Amazon UK. Visit www.cosmoclark.com.

 

Dicepeople: It Gets Darker

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‘It Gets Darker’ is the second album from London-based electronica artist Dicepeople. Frost loved their first album, ‘Time to Play’and this one is just as good. Dicepeople are stunningly original and wonderfully delicious. A great band who should break through into the mainstream in 2012.

The album will be released on 28 October 2011 on Sonic Serendipity, and it will be
available at music.dicepeople.org for free download and to purchase on CD.

‘It Gets Darker’ is so named because it explores themes relating to the dark side of
humanity. It’s darker and heavier than the first Dicepeople album ‘Time to Play’, which
was released on 13 July 2009 and had significant radio play and great critical feedback:

‘A delicious mix of hard synth-driven electronica and melodic IDM … a 50 minute auditory
delight … bursting at the seams with talent.’ – Connexion Bizarre

‘A substantial release that reinvigorates the energy of the past while keeping a firm grip on the current pulse of electronics … definitely time to play this album from start to end.’ – Igloo Magazine

‘Delicious both to the ears and to the soul … I’m loving every moment on this album.’ –
DARKLIFE fanzine

Dicepeople is a musical project created by Matt Brock. Dicepeople was originally set up in
London, UK in the mid-90s as an electronic side project when Brock was more heavily involved
with industrial acts Noise Union and Replikator. In 2008, however, Brock transformed
Dicepeople into his primary musical project and aimed to take it beyond pure electronic music.

The tagline for Dicepeople is ‘dark electronica for the body and mind’ because Brock’s aim is to
create music that combines driving beats with evocative and emotionally engaging harmonies
and melodies. The music has an electronic foundation with industrial and EBM components,
and it mixes real instruments and voices with synthesisers to add cinematic depth and intensity.

Dicepeople influences cover a very broad range of artists including Art of Noise, Black
Sabbath, Can, Depeche Mode, The Doors, Front 242, The Future Sound of London, Hoodlum
Priest, John Barry, John Carpenter, KMFDM, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Siouxsie Sioux, Tangerine Dream and Underworld.

www.dicepeople.org