TWAO was highlighting the ever more serious economic consequences of this disastrous idiocy. Ships in an ever growing region cannot get their bunker fuel which nearly all comes from the Middle East. … (View Post)

Agreed. And, from the opposition's pov the point is absolutely not the answers which rarely have anything to do with the question (under any PM, let alone the current one) but the questions them… (View Post)

Personally, I would say that Starmer has proven to be closer to my position on this than any of the leaders. If he wasn't so woolly, incoherent and inconsistent he might be doing even better. He… (View Post)

So today the Royal Navy managed, after 6 days of truly extraordinary work, to put a vessel to sea. The reality is that almost all of the proposed increase in public spending on defence being planned … (View Post)

What they are proposing doesn't seem very extreme from Scotland. Sheriff Courts here can sentence for about 2 years (some complexities for breaches of bail etc) at what is called Summary level w… (View Post)