Well, he could have done it in his 20s when his immense social capital would have got him a plum commission in a Guards regiment or similar. Yet, like a lot of tory chickenhawks, he chose not to... (View Post)

The Diego Garcia discussion is bollocks anyway as its fate is not remotely within the gift of the British government. The US have 2,000+ personnel there and the British about 30 - to do the hoovering… (View Post)

That doesn't stack up. In a parallel universe where sanity reigned and the carriers were not built then something else would have been built at Rosyth anyway. Maybe 3 x Mistral / Juan Carlos I t… (View Post)

UK's Second Best Friend status under threat! (View Post)

Johnson is quite well suited to being LotO. He'd probably like it better than being PM. (View Post)