This half-hour radio 4 programme on the increasingly prevalent use of pilot-less drones in war gives a nice overview of the subject. Being so short, it doesn't go into some of the thornier issues surrounding their use - the law on extrajudicial executions, the differences in accountability between military and CIA use of drones - but it's extremely enlightening nonetheless.
Daniel May has been named as the Sky News Bob Friend Memorial Scholar for 2010. He will formally receive the award from Sky News's editorial development manager Rob Kirk on the evening of March 3 at the Sky Bob Friend Memorial Lecture, to be delivered this year by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson.


We are delighted to announce that the shortlisting panel has chosen the following three students to face the scholarship panel on Wednesday. Congratulations to Sara Malm, Daniel May and Melanie Wimmer.
Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, is to deliver the second Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Journalism in March.
Sir David Eady will give the opening address to a privacy conference at the University of Kent next month. Arguably the most influential High court judge in matters involving the media, Eady has presided over numerous key privacy hearings, including those of Sir Max Moseley, singer Loreena McKennitt and, most recently, Tiger Woods. Such is his prominence that the Daily Mail has accused him of having a "virtual monopoly over all cases against the media, enabling him to bring in a privacy law by the back door".