We had no operational carriers between 2011 and 2021, and the best you can say about the period since is that they're partly operational. A full F35 wing will be deployed for the first time next year… (View Post)

Amazon have managed to make themselves seem so incredibly low-rent and seedy, that I almost wonder if they're aping Ryanair's tactic from a couple of decades ago of making themselves seem cheap and n… (View Post)

The new government is gearing up for a new Strategic Defence Review process, which should give us a better basis for discussion. The last one, published in March 2021 (after having been delayed for o… (View Post)

No-one was seriously planning for a world-scale war in 1914, of course. Indeed, the decision to force hundreds of thousands of able-bodied men into the meat grinder, no matter the long-term damage to… (View Post)

And, of course, the benefits cap means that very few people of working age are actually able to get the full LHA amount anyway in London (and presumably much of the South-East as well). The only part… (View Post)