Ted Heath is very much the Prime Minister Starmer resembles most - both one-time extremists turned uncharismatic centrists who believe that if there are problems, technocratic tinkering within govern… (View Post)

There is a tipping point in Russia, but I see no evidence at all that it's there any time soon, and my worry is that the brave Ukrainians will reach their tipping point first, in which case it&#… (View Post)

You're thinking about it as a civilised, humane Westerner, to whom every life is precious. Here a deliberate decision to crash a couple of jumbo jets every day would indeed be unacceptable. But … (View Post)

Except that it isn't. Russia is spending 40% of GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE - not GDP - on defence - about 7-8% of GDP. See John Healey's contribution here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons… (View Post)

The Treasury then was only out by a factor of 5, which is actually quite good for government guesses. I remember the Home Office forecasting that 13,000 East Europeans would come when we allowed them… (View Post)