Of course not but this is partly the asinine way we plan the defence budget. Spending as a percentage of GDP is all very well but that is not how money actually works. A new destroyer costs what it c… (View Post)

Yes to ID cards. No to trial by jury. WTF is going on in Downing Street? (View Post)

Yes, it is the same process that gave us the omnishambles budget all those years ago – stringing together unconnected items from the Treasury's wish list of measures previously rejected on polit… (View Post)

Or it suggests that we are frit of Russia and are just cheerleading American actions. (View Post)

OT-ish but Christmas Number One is a market that fits here and has just been explained by TRiE. Kylie won when everyone expected Xmas playlists to give Wham! the hat trick. It turns out Christmas Num… (View Post)