In the age of Trump and Putin gradualist civil service thinking is just not on. It will be the death of Europe. We need to DOUBLE defence spending. The threat is existential. (View Post)

By 2026 SNP will have been in power for 19 years and defending a relatively high-water mark under Sturgeon at the last election. So bound to be some slippage. But where will it go? Not to Labour. Pro… (View Post)

Her summation: "Between the tariffs, the idiotic threats to Canadian and Danish sovereignty, the destruction of USAID, and the undermining of NATO, it's hard to see what the Trump administr… (View Post)

Hmm. I don't think we should get too fixated on the polling just yet. Undoubtedly this - now - is a sweet spot for Reform: no-one is considering who they actually want in Govt right now; populis… (View Post)

The contrast between Starmer (Chagos) and Trump (Greenland, Panama, etc.) is really quite surreal. I can only assume that Sir Keir is indulging his lefty-lawyer shtick with this "deal" in t… (View Post)