Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and broadcast on Thursday, August 5th.

I'm Cindy Yu, the Spectator's broadcast editor. On this week's show, Pirates are back,

this time they're hacking your computer networks in return for hefty ransoms. I speak to a former

CIA man and an expert who headed up the National Cyber Security Center to find out more.

But in some parts of the world, war is still physical. I'll be reflecting on what the West

still doesn't

understand about Afghanistan 20 years on, and hearing about why there's no such thing as the

Taliban. Back home, Boris Johnson and Kiyah Sama are both in Scotland. Can they outman

maneuver Nicholas Sturgeon? I speak to our political editors, James Forsy. Also on the show,

Rory Sutherland on whether delivery discounts will work as bribes for vaccination,

and Suzanne Moore on whether the trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard should have competed in the women's category.

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Now, first, would you pay a ransom to hackers? Russian gangs are increasingly targeting Western

companies and institutions with cyber attacks, stealing their data and in some cases demanding millions to give it back.

In this week's cover piece, Kieran Martin, formerly the chair of the National Cyber Security Center, says we need to have a crackdown.

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