‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE

They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are they abusing their powers?

PhD position in Cryptanalysis

“Based on these ethnographic findings, we initiate the cryptographic study of at-compromise security”

Our work – “At-Compromise Security: The Case for Alert Blindness” – was accepted at EUROCRYPT 2026; with “us” being Simone Colombo, Benjamin Dowling, Rikke Bjerg Jensen and, well, me. Abstract. We …

Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover

See | Hear | Act | Do

Lecturer (≅ Assistant Professor/Juniorprofessor/Maître de conférences) in Cryptography at King’s College London 2026

We are looking to recruit a lecturer in cryptography at King’s College London to work with us within the cybersecurity group: I think it’s fair to say we got strong expertise in lattice-based and p…

On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI

An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the one hand, this is very silly because I’m a humanities PhD who mostly writes about comic books. On th

Legal action against UK university employing Trump-like deportation tactics to silence pro-Palestine student activism

London – International relations student Usama Ghanem is at risk of being sent back to the country he fled due to persecution if his indefinite suspension at King’s College London (KCL) is not overturned by the Courts, following a judicial review hearing.

Internship Position on the Lattice Estimator

Eamonn and I are looking to hire an intern for four months to work on the Lattice Estimator. The internship will be based at King’s College London and is funded by a gift from Zama. We are ideally …