If the IRA had launched 9,300 rockets in a year into British towns and cities displacing around 1% of our population as Hezbollah has with Israel I doubt we'd have put up with them to the extent… (View Post)

It can be that. It can also be a hidebound, inept, generalist, complacent, lazy and above all extremely risk-averse government machine refusing to consider new ways of doing things. I worked in gover… (View Post)

Netanyahu is indeed making things much too easy for Hamas and Hezbollah. He is providing them with all the recruits and worldwide sympathy they could ask for and need to make sure the war goes on for… (View Post)

The Labour Party has an agenda? They just seem to be making it up day by day (and no Sunak wasn't much better). (View Post)

And US reporting of UK politics, when it happens at all, is entirely crap. I got a concerned message or two from friends over the summer hoping I was keeping myself safe as our cities burned. One liv… (View Post)