We need to stop fetishising expenditure numbers. Anybody can throw money at a problem. It's far more difficult, but critically important, to make sure you get £1's worth of defence for every £1 you s… (View Post)

Off any conceivable topic, but I've been in Australia for the last month or so, seeing old friends doing a bit of work in my spare time. And dodging the winter back home obviously. Here are some refl… (View Post)

Darth Putin: War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength Ship is submarine (View Post)

I don't think public opinion always changes gradually - the Truss debacle or the Black Wednesday and following events showed that when it changes it can change quickly. As an otherwise foolish man on… (View Post)

The predictor that matters is not how many seats a party got at the previous election where the correlation is low or actually negative, but the opinion polls three months or less before polling day,… (View Post)