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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Parliamentary by-election is being held in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in the north of England.</li><li>Insider spoke to locals, candidates, and campaigners in the city on how the contest is going.</li></ul>A spectre is haunting the Conservative Party's campaign in Wakefield—the spectre of a Jacobean figure in a tall conical straw hat that haunts the Old Vicarage in Wakefield where Tory headquarters are, if local tales are to be believed.Eric, 72, is a volunteer in a small bookshop next to the Conservative Party's campaign office. He's trying to use the Parliamentary by-election to drum up business and has placed a number of political biographies in the window that looks onto the Tory office. There's <keyword id="11911533" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="boris-johnson" source="Orion">Boris Johnson</keyword>'s "The Churchill Factor" as well as Churchill's own autobiography, plus his "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Michael Heseltine's autobiography, and history books on Gladstone.<div type="image" title="Books in a window in Wakefield" height="1200" width="2400" msid="92134222" hostid="261"></div>But the move hasn't attracted any business from the volunteers, canvassers, and Tory MPs shuffling in to try and support Nadeem Ahmed's campaign to hold Wakefield for the <keyword id="12003099" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="conservatives" source="Orion">Conservatives</keyword>, after the incumbent Imran Ahmad Khan resigned following his conviction for sexually assaulting a teenage boy. The Christian Peoples Alliance candidate, Paul Bickerdike, raised eyebrows after putting "I have never sexually assaulted anyone" on his election leaflets and <a href="https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/wakefield-election-candidate-paul-bickerdale-24079524">telling the media</a> "I do look at children but I look at children in a proper way, not the way that the previous MP was looking at children." Eric reckons this should "go without saying".Tory candidate Ahmed, a local councillor since 2006, is a "pleasant bloke", Eric tells Insider, who is thinking of voting Conservative in the by-election if he can get down to the polling station. "My dad used to say only Conservatives and Communists vote when it rains." <div type="image" title="Conservative HQ in Wakefield" height="2008" width="2678" msid="92134223" hostid="261"></div>Eric voted for Johnson's party in the December 2019 by-election, but has voted <keyword id="12077443" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="labour" source="Orion">Labour</keyword> before. Keir Starmer is "down to earth and ordinary", but he finds Johnson to be "genuinely honest", adding "I am a very forgiving" person.During an interview with Insider, Ahmed also speaks of the forgiving nature of Wakefield's voters, saying he would have backed Johnson in the vote of confidence. "I would have voted to respect democracy, which is to keep Boris Johnson to fulfil his mandate," he says."What do we do as human beings, if somebody makes a mistake? If they confess their mistake, they apologise for the mistake, they say what was wrong, they say I'm going to correct this, sort my office out, which he's done."Despite the woes Johnson's premiership has faced, they don't come up for Eric, who is more concerned at what he says are plans by the Conservatives locally as part of regeneration work to Wakefield's city centre. Among the casualties would be the Old Vicarage, with the bookshop and the Conservatives' own offices, and its tombstone-lined secret tunnel leading from the basement, under the road, and to the Masonic Lodge opposite. The Wakefield Labour Club's "Red Shed" is also next to the Old Vicarage, albeit not connected by an underground passageway.A week after the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Labour's campaign headquarters elsewhere in Wakefield is still decked out with Union Jack bunting and a flag above the door. Simon Lightwood, the party's candidate, is not available for an interview, but Lou Haigh MP, the shadow transport secretary who is responsible for helping to shape the campaign's narrative, says Labour are feeling confident about the by-election.<div type="image" title="Labour headquarters in Wakefield" height="1555" width="2073" msid="92134224" hostid="261"></div>She casts doubt on polling that predicts a lead of 20% for Labour, saying Labour's data is suggesting closer to an 8 or 9 point lead.Haigh says the election is "make or break" for British <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>. "We're putting Boris Johnson on the ballot paper," she says, although declines to say what the ramifications could be for Labour and Starmer's leadership should they lose the contest. "I'm not going to countenance the Labour party losing this by-election."Haigh says the Conservatives have recently realised they have "an awful lot to lose, and the stakes are much higher for them than they are for us". She adds: "Particularly over the last week, they've really clearly upped their spend and are throwing a lot more at it now."Back outside the Old Vicarage, mother and daughter Helen, 78, and Kate, 57, talk about the most pressing issue that week – the bus strike which began on Monday. They won't be voting for either the Conservatives or Labour. Kate thinks Labour will win, and while both admit they would probably back the Tories in a general election, they plan to use the by-election to give the governing party "a bit of a kicking", not least because of a response to the cost-of-living crisis that has been "too rigid". So they'll be voting for Reform UK, the latest iteration of what was the Brexit Party, which they backed in 2019. It's leaping into that gap and giving the Conservatives – or "Consocialists", as he calls them – a bit of a kicking that Reform UK's leader, <keyword id="14166276" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="richard-tice" source="Orion">Richard Tice</keyword>, is drawn towards. In an interview with Insider, Tice claims the party has knocked on 70% of the doors in the constituency two weeks ahead of polling day, seeking to fill the vacuum left by the <keyword id="14166277" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="liberal-democrats" source="Orion">Liberal Democrats</keyword> busy campaigning for the by-election on the same day in Tiverton and Honiton as the protest vote. Tice says he has heard two themes: "Fear, genuine fear, at how people are going to pay their bills and the cost of living. And the other is fury. I think people are furious at <keyword id="13495783" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="partygate" source="Orion">partygate</keyword>, furious at the fact that trust in politics has just been decimated across the board, and furious at energy bills."Wakefield voted around 63% to leave in the 2016 referendum, according to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457289.2017.1287081?journalCode=fbep20">analysis by politics professor Chris Hanretty</a>. Tice says people are also "furious that Boris has basically botched Brexit. People know that Northern Ireland is a mess, totally of Boris's making." It's because of that Brexit support that the party are focused on Wakefield, instead of Tiverton and Honiton, where "shire Tories" are more likely to want to vote for the Liberal Democrats as a protest vote, he says. And like the Liberal Democrats, Tice says a priority for the next non-Conservative government should be electoral reform, admitting his interest as the leader (albeit an unelected appointee after Nigel Farage left) of what he describes as the UK's fifth largest party. Ahmed, the Conservative candidate, doesn't seem fussed by the idea of losing due to voters backing Reform. "I don't even know – they don't even know what they stand for. What are their policies? What do they stand for?" He's sceptical of the relevance of electoral reform as a priority for Wakefield voters.The Liberal Democrats don't have a campaign base in the constituency, with the registered office 17 miles away on the other side of Leeds. In an interview over the phone, their candidate, Jamie Needle, admits the party is putting more resources into Tiverton and Honiton, a contest that for the party is "more in contention". There, he thinks the contest is likely to be close, but as for Wakefield, he says he knows no better than the pollsters, which have him in either third or fourth place.The effects of war on the continent and conflict further afield have not skipped the city. Nika, 26, tells Insider she is an asylum seeker, fleeing Moscow in early 2022 before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and one of what she estimates to be 300 to 400 refugees in Wakefield from countries including Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nika says she has been welcomed to Wakefield, "a wonderful place with parks and developed infrastructure", and thanks the UK government for its "good attitude" that has given her a roof over her head.Her response to a question on what Wakefield needs suggests she's well in line with the views of long standing residents on what really matters: "More buses."

Wakefield's by-election, where the Conservatives are haunted by a ghost and locals complain about bus strikes

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12241513" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nigel-farage" source="Orion">Nigel Farage</keyword>, leader of Reform UK until March 2021, wasn't at its conference in Manchester.</li><li>Farage is the party president and by far its best-known figure.</li><li>The group, formerly the Brexit Party, rebranded after the UK left the European Union.</li></ul>Nigel Farage, the president of Reform UK and former leader of the party he helped establish, did not appear at the party's first conference since the 2019 general election.Reform UK held a one-day conference in Manchester alongside the opening of the Conservative Party Conference on Sunday.Reform UK is the successor to the Brexit Party, which Farage led to victory in the May 2019 European elections, and then to defeat in the Parliamentary general election in December 2019.Farage stepped down as party leader in March 2021 to focus on his media career, and has recently taken a significant role at GB News, the right-leaning broadcaster that has suffered from a rocky launch.He wasn't listed on the program for the conference, and was broadcasting for GB News from London on Sunday morning.In an interview with Insider, the party's deputy leader, Dr. David Bull, suggested it was possible Farage might make an appearance. "Nigel is still around, very much so. He did his bit," he said, "Without telling you too much, he's around."Asked if that might translate into an appearance on Sunday, Bull said: "It might do."But the party's leader, Richard Tice, who inherited the leadership from Farage, was clearer: "Nigel is focusing on his media career. In a sense, of course, he'd love to be here."But equally it's important to try and keep that sort of sense of balance and so he doesn't want it to be seen as a distraction on how he's trying to shape and influence through the media."Asked if Tice had asked Farage to come to the conference, he said: "Of course he's very welcome to come. But ultimately, he's a busy guy. He's doing media five days a week. It's not easy."Farage did not appear at the conference, a party spokesman confirmed. Farage sent a tweet in support of the conference.

Nigel Farage didn't show up to his own party's conference

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters</div></div></div>The CEO of a property investment firm Quidnet Capital Partners says Britain should leave the European Union because the 28-nation bloc is barely growing and is failing to "help its citizens."Richard Tice told Bloomberg that while <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/merrill-lynch-brexit-bad-no-one-else-would-leave">investment banks and some bosses at Britain's biggest companies believe that a Brexit would be catastrophic for the island</a>, it would be better for the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword> to determine its own fate by voting "out" of the EU."The biggest risk is staying in something that, frankly, is flatlining and not helping its citizens," Tice told Bloomberg.Tice, whose company manages £500 million ($756 million) worth of real estate, added that leaving would be a "very simple process" and that "I don't think there'd be any disruption at all. This is not cataclysmic."Last week, a team of Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst led by Robert Wood, warned that if Britons voted to leave the EU in the referendum scheduled for 2017, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/merrill-lynch-brexit-bad-no-one-else-would-leave">the UK would experience so much economic pain</a> that it would make the EU stronger, because no other country would ever want to leave."In our view there would be serious economic fall-out for the UK in the short- and long-term if voters choose to leave the EU," said BAML analysts in the report.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Thomson ReutersBritain's Prime Minister David Cameron.</div></div></div>Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne don't want to leave the EU and have promised Britons that the government will renegotiate a "better deal" with Brussels.Cameron this week outlined exactly <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/david-camerons-mission-impossible-europe-speech-2015-11">what he is asking for and what he hopes to achieve</a> in renegotiating some of the terms of Britain's EU membership.Influential business group the Institute of Directors <a href="http://www.iod.com/influencing/press-office/press-releases/business-leaders-back-osbornes-eu-reform-agenda">said last week that business leaders are backing the push for renegotiation but not an exit</a>."Our members value access to the single market, and want to see it completed to create a true level playing field for their services, but businesses do not want the UK to take part in further political integration," said Simon Walker, Director General of the IoD. "As the Eurozone takes the steps it needs to build a stronger currency union, the Chancellor is right to insist on protections for the UK and other EU members who are not part of the single currency," "This is an important part of the Government's negotiations, but it is not the only part. The overriding aim must be to secure reforms which make the whole of the EU more competitive, benefiting companies of all sizes, even those which don't export."A poll of 1,259 IoD members during April to May also showed that two thirds of respondents believe that the benefits of staying within the EU outweighed the potential negatives. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-herjavec-american-dream-shark-tank-small-business-2015-10">'Shark Tank' star Robert Herjavec says only Americans think there are no opportunities in America </a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="gwbTkzeDpwglUYEFdCPlUIg1JNcvtfkf" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Elise Amendola/AP" title_caption="Bill Belichick would never call this Surface tablet an iPad." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5432a4576bb3f7ce4cd2a56a-960/bill-belichick-18.jpg"></a>Elise Amendola/APBill Belichick would never call this Surface tablet an iPad.</div></div>After the NFL and Microsoft struck a 5-year, $400 million to make the Surface Pro 3 the official tablet of the NFL, the league ran into a bit of a problem when a few <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-nfl-surface-ipads-2014-9">network announcers couldn't correctly identify the technology and called them iPads or "iPad-like tools."</a>
Since then, Microsoft has "coached" some announcers on being better able to identify the devices.
"It's true, we have coached up a select few," a Microsoft spokesperson told Business Insider. "That coaching will continue to ensure our partners are well equipped to discuss Surface when the camera pans to players using the device during games."
The coaching appears to be working as there have not been any further reports of the blue tablets being mistaken for iPads. The coaching may have even worked a little too well in at least one incident.
During Fox's coverage of the Atlanta Falcons and New York Giants, cameras zoomed in on Falcons offensive line coach Mike Tice who was reviewing photos of the game using a standard 3-ring binder. The announcers were quick to point out that Tice was going "old school" and didn't need a Surface tablet.
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Reviewing photos on the sidelines has become the main use of the Surface tablets.
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According to the spokesperson, Microsoft is encouraging teams to use the Surface tablets is working directly with teams "to make sure all players and coaches are comfortable using the device." The key selling point is time, as the tablets can have the photos in the hands of players and coaches 30-40 seconds fast than the old school method.
Converting an old schooler like Tice might prove to be a bigger challenge than coaching the announcers.
The occasional glitch aside, the partnership appears to finally be working and the message is getting out.

After Coaching From Microsoft, NFL Announcers Have Gotten Very Good At Identifying Surface Tablets

<div class="image-container float_right"><div class="image">REUTERS/Sarah ConardA reflection of Charlie Miller is pictured on his computer screen in his home-office in Wildwood, Missouri April 30, 2013. Miller is a security researcher at Twitter who previously worked for the National Security Agency (<keyword id="38879" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="NSA">NSA</keyword>).</div></div>Last week Siobhan Gorman of The Wall Street Journal <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/">reported</a> that National Security Agency analysts have occasionally used vast <keyword id="6354565" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="surveillance">surveillance</keyword> tools to spy on love interests.
NSA Chief Compliance Officer John DeLong told reporters that willful violations of <keyword id="6392096" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Spying">spying</keyword> rules — dubbed "LOVEINT" — happened on “very rare” occasions, adding that he didn't have exact numbers because most of the violations were self-reported.
(One situation in which self-reported abuses arise is when an employee takes a polygraph tests as part of a renewal of a security clearance.)
D.B. Grady, who co-authored of the book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Government-Secrecy-Industry/dp/1118146689">Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry</a>" with fellow investigative journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/marcambinder">Marc Ambinder</a>, said that the lack of oversight regarding abuse by NSA analysts is the most troubling part of the admission.
"The real shocking revelation about all that is that this information is self-reported," Grady told Business Insider. "You mean there's no record? I can't download something from <a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/company/about">BitTorrent</a> without my ISP shutting me down and these guys can spy on their girlfriends and boyfriends across the planet and nobody finds out? That's the most shocking thing of all: all of the security mechanisms lack teeth."
Grady explained that the systematic lack of security extends to analysts who want to abuse the system in other ways, such as <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-still-doesnt-know-what-snowden-took-2013-8">the case</a> of former NSA contractor <keyword id="1702690" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Edward-Snowden">Edward Snowden</keyword>.
"My daughter can't buy anything on her iPad without me putting in a password, but Edward Snowden can copy the entirety of NSA computer system without putting in a password," Grady said. "There are no internal protections, and if they exist, the people who work for the NSA are very smart. So if you want to break the system, you can break the system — Snowden proved that."
On Monday Richard Espositio and Matthew Cole of NBC <a href="http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/26/20197183-how-snowden-did-it?lite">reported</a> that Snowden functioned as a "ghost user," meaning that he was able "look at any file he wanted, and his actions were largely unaudited."
One intelligence official told NBC that this was partly because "the NSA is stuck in 2003 technology.”
Another key reason is that Snowden's role as a "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-trained-snowden-to-hack-2013-7">system administrator</a>" meant that he was able to access NSAnet, the agency’s intranet, without leaving any signature.
“At certain levels, you are the audit,” another intelligence official told NBC.
So not only can the public add LOVEINT to the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-nsa-can-abuse-data-on-americans-2013-7">list of abuses</a> by government workers with access to government databases, but lack of security mechanisms also means that nobody truly knows how widespread the abuses have been.
And Russ Tice, an NSA whistleblower who <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-nsa-spied-on-barack-obama-2004-russ-tice-2013-6">claims to have seen a wiretap for then-Senator Barack Obama</a> and other prominent public officials in 2004, believes that there is much more to be learned about NSA abuse.
"Outrageous abuses ... have happened, and it's all being kept hush hush," Tice told Business Insider.

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