Of course. And it is their incompetence which created the crisis in the first place by allowing the system assessing immigrants to grind to a halt creating huge backlogs and, of course, full hotels. … (View Post)

There are several conditions there that teeter on the edge of acceptability but the last is an Exocet missile. No rational government should ever have agreed to that. The challenge of producing somet… (View Post)

Unquestionably. At the end of the war Japan had way over a million men under arms. I am not completely convinced that taking Japan would have been possible, even for the American logistical giant tha… (View Post)

At the risk of being a broken record (is this analogy past its sell by date?) the black hole is not £22bn or £50bn, its more like £150bn or something like 1/6th of all government expenditure. That is… (View Post)

Really? I thought she spent the whole time legless. (View Post)