I am not sure how far you disagree with the Mail. There are two points. One is the number of operational ships is too low, whether that is due to badly planned maintenance or, as you suggest, not eno… (View Post)

The Mail tells us most of His Majesty's warships are being refitted or undergoing maintenance, leaving:= 2 QE-class aircraft carriers – 0 operational 6 type 45 destroyers – 2 operational 7 type … (View Post)

Your war aims might be laudable. Death and destruction might be a price worth paying if a free, liberal democracy rises from the ashes. But is that what America and Israel are doing? President Trump … (View Post)

Andrew Neil put it to William Hague that the Cameron government in which he was Foreign Secretary cut defence spending by 20 per cent. Hague claimed they did build two aircraft carriers but of course… (View Post)

The reason Dragon is late is she has had the builders in and is being rushed back out of maintenance. We don't have the ships anymore after four decades of Tory cuts, and one decade of Labour or… (View Post)