The excellent H.I.Sutton has a video out on China's build-up for an invasion of Taiwan. They are building a fleet of barges whose only purpose is amphibious landing. https://www.youtube.com/watc… (View Post)

Scuttlebutt is that Taiwan will destroy the valuables at TSMC and elsewhere if China tries to invade. That'll hurt us (but so would TSMC under Chinese control...) As for Trump: my view was that … (View Post)

Hey! I'm sort-of defending Starmer this morning. :) (My view is that it's good he's gone to Kyiv, but he should have gone there earlier in his PMship. But to call it 'grandstandin… (View Post)

I'd actually say that those figures are quite good for the Conservatives six months into a new Labour government. Labour have had very little time to muck things up, compared to the Conservative… (View Post)

You miss the point. labour got the waiting lists down by splurging money on the NHS. That could not be continued in the same manner after 2010. IIRC the Conservative governments did increase NHS spen… (View Post)