Ukraine: tanks for the memory
April 27, 2024 2:14 amLeave your thoughts
Although the Telegraph seems to have been the first British paper to carry the report of a US confirmation that... View Article
Author Archives for Richard North
Defence: the presumption of war
April 26, 2024 2:58 amWith the opportunity to question strategic defence assumptions having been missed by the MP collective in the Commons – not... View Article
Politics: a failing institution
April 25, 2024 2:26 amBefore our very eyes, yesterday, we saw parliament demonstrate its abject failure to exercise its hard-earned powers – and the... View Article
Politics: no way to run a government
April 24, 2024 2:42 amOstensibly, this is a post about defence but, actually, it isn’t. This is politics at its worst – the news... View Article
Ukraine: very far from over
April 23, 2024 3:02 amSo, it’s back to work after the riotous 20-year anniversary celebrations (not) and, with a busy news agenda, there’s a... View Article
Comment: twenty years on
April 22, 2024 2:40 amUnlike a jail sentence, there is no time off for good behaviour when publishing a blog. The sentence is indeterminate,... View Article
Ukraine: media muddles
April 21, 2024 3:22 amSignificantly – in my mind at least – the main point of my blogpost yesterday seems to have been missed... View Article
Media: no longer making the weather
April 20, 2024 3:13 amAs an indication of how the social media have taken over much of the role of front-line social commentary, one... View Article
Politics: a crisis of leadership
April 19, 2024 3:22 amThe BBC usually puts up facsimiles of the major newspaper front pages by just after one in the morning –... View Article
Politics: implications of Ukraine’s defeat
April 18, 2024 2:35 amOne wonders whether Sunak is aware of the parlous state in which Ukraine finds itself. But it seems hard to... View Article
Comment: fundamentally unserious
April 17, 2024 3:41 amIn a very small way, the forces of rationality seem to have secured a small victories lately, firstly with Victoria... View Article
Ukraine: two-faced Cameron
April 16, 2024 3:44 amForced to recognise the anomalous levels of support as between Israel and Ukraine, Cameron found himself struggling to explain why... View Article
Israel: mushroom clouds over Tehran
April 15, 2024 3:11 amI am not the only one, by a long chalk, to wonder why it is that the US – with... View Article
Ukraine: losing the headline war
April 14, 2024 2:56 amThe curse of the Middle East has struck again, with the Iranian drone and missile bombardment of Israel. Although, at... View Article
Defence: an uncertain future
April 13, 2024 2:57 amProvisionally, for the Labour Party, Friday was supposed to be dedicated to defence, when Starmer was to set out his... View Article
Politics: round and round in circles
April 12, 2024 3:17 amEver since the ECHR rulings on climate change – with the judgements delivered on 9 April, I had mentally reserved... View Article