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Articles by Paul Darby
Sport as migrant work: transnational athletic migration and belonging in English professional women’s football
ABSTRACT The transnational mobility of women footballers has been subject to scant academic attention. However, the pace and scale of the professionalization of the women’s game and the concomitant internationalization of playing rosters over the last decade warrants further research. This study explores the experiences of migrant footballers in the women’s professional game in England.
Challenging ableism and disablism in English football fandom: disabled supporters and repertoires of ‘everyday resistance’
Abstract Recent research has shown that disabled people who attend professional football matches in England are confronted with a series of barriers rooted in ableism and disablism. However, we know significantly less about how they respond to, navigate and resist these.
UK Banks Urged to Act Now Ahead of New Cross-Border Payments Legislation ISO 20022 to Prevent Exclusion from International Payment Networks
With just over 18 months to go until the ISO 20022 compliance deadline, leading Quality Engineering company, Roq, is urging UK financial institutions to take the necessary measures now to finalise their plans and focus on the execution of a programme that is, by all published metrics, some way behind the curve. Failure to meet the date has major ramifications for individual organisations and perhaps the UK’s financial services sector in part or whole.
The fighting spirit of young African footballers who migrate overseas Original
When Sadio Mané scored the decisive penalty to secure Senegal’s triumph over Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, Isaak, a professional Ghanaian footballer in his late 20s, could not have been further away from the action. Watching the final online in his room in eastern Thailand, Isaak’s thoughts most likely turned to what might have been had he managed to better navigate some critical forks in the road of his football career.
The Threshing Floor and the Pestilence
Written by Paul S. Darby | Thursday, April 9, 2020 Epidemics and pandemics have come and gone in this fallen world and will continue to do so until Christ gives us a new home, free from all pestilence. As terrible as pandemics may be, they only typify the greatest plague imaginable—to be without God in this world and the next.
Citadel Festival news : Looking back at so many magical headliners who have graced the Citadel Main Stag…
If every gig sounded this good the world would be a joyous place. CUD’s return to the Islington Academy some ten years and a handful […]
Outdated VPN remote access puts critical national infrastructure organisations at risk
When VPNs were first developed back in the 1990s, the idea was to extend the LAN to employees’ home offices and hotels as they hit the road. This meant giving employees remote access to everything their company network had to offer—just as if they were working on the internal network. Then, when companies began outsourcing work and bringing ecosystem partners onto their networks, the remote access VPN was about the only tool at their disposal.
Cybersecurity: building armour for critical apps
Is the global power industry impervious to cyberattackufteqdbutc? Until recently the answer would have been yes, but in recent years this has changed. Back in June, The Guardian reported that the concerns over the threat to power stations and electricity grids were ‘off the scale’, claiming that no other country in the world has an energy industry so worried about cyberthreats.
The Traditional Security Stack Must Evolve To Face Predatory Malware | BCW
When it comes to security, we are in a state of flux. Firewalls combined with other solutions, which make up the typical security stack today, are being neutralised and investments made irrelevant by the level of predatory malware being used in cyberattacks. 2017 marked a particularly disturbing shift to more advanced attacks and more significant breaches.
Combatting cyber-attacks means thinking outside the box | Finance Digest Magazine
Over the last few months, a number of legislative and regulatory changes in relation to the threat of cyberattacks have been announced that will affect bank clearing housesin the UK. From May 2018 they will be required to complete regular cybersecurity reports, putting regulations more in line with EU directives around critical infrastructure.
Trust no one - protecting data centers against cyber espionage
Security concerns are rippling across the IT industry. The WannaCry ransomware attack which hit the NHS and data theft incidents like that experienced by Wonga, the payday loan company, leave a sense of unease that traditional security measures are failing to allay. Data centers have particular challenges to face when it comes to security, because they not only need to construct cyber-defenses, but physical barriers too, to protect and safeguard equipment and sensitive data.
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