Politics: irreconcilable differences
December 15, 2025 3:27 am Post a CommentAs 15 people lie dead in an Australian morgue, murdered by two Pakistani Muslim gunmen, 40 more fight to recover... View Article
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Environment: waste crime
December 14, 2025 3:46 am Post a CommentThe Sunday Times has published a report by Samuel Lovett on the fly-tipping plague which has reached epidemic proportions, blighting... View Article
Media: the reality gap
December 13, 2025 3:04 am Post a CommentDespite all the war talk, the Ajax issue has not been settled, the uncertainty hanging over the Army’s readiness plans... View Article
Defence: the path to war?
December 12, 2025 2:46 am Post a CommentNato SecGen Mark Rutte (pictured), during a speech timed to coincide with the annual Munich Security Conference, perversely held in... View Article
Defence: “porcupine strategy”
December 11, 2025 2:55 am Post a CommentI have been steadily ploughing through Captain S W Roskill’s War at Sea, the official account of the Royal Navy’s... View Article
Policing: reform resuscitated
December 10, 2025 4:00 am Post a CommentNo sooner have we begun to digest Lammy’s jury proposal, set out without a mandate and therefore lacking democratic legitimacy,... View Article
Defence: the real invaders
December 9, 2025 3:21 am Post a CommentIt is all very well for the First Sea Lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, to deliver stern lectures about the... View Article
Defence: demystifying the debate
December 8, 2025 3:42 am Post a CommentWith this morning’s papers resembling a featureless news desert, I thought I might stay with Ukraine and defence issues a... View Article
Ukraine: joining the dots
December 7, 2025 3:20 am Post a CommentIn late October, I reported on the basis of multiple sources that the Russians were changing their ground tactics in... View Article
Politics: the inexhaustible well of ignorance
December 6, 2025 3:20 am Post a CommentThe EU’s Customs Union is back in the news with The Times reporting: “David Lammy ‘opens a can of worms’... View Article
Defence: end of a saga?
December 5, 2025 3:30 am Post a CommentWith good news hard to find these days, there is possibly a glimmer of light in the news from The... View Article
Law and order: constitutional vandalism
December 4, 2025 3:03 am Post a CommentHaving left it a full day before commenting on Lammy’s jury proposals, I expected to see the legacy media awash... View Article
Ukraine: it ain’t over yet
December 3, 2025 2:59 am Post a CommentAlthough Lammy’s proposals for the partial abolition of jury trials is high on the agenda, I’ll let that simmer for... View Article
Politics: foreigners in the House
December 2, 2025 3:45 am Post a CommentOne can only smile at the news of Starmer’s former anti-corruption minister, Tulip Siddiq, being convicted of corruption in her... View Article
Defence: what are politicians for?
December 1, 2025 3:39 am Post a CommentI wasn’t planning on returning to this subject so soon, but an article in the Telegraph presents an important insight... View Article
