Heard a story about crime-fighting this morning that I thought was worth sharing. A teenager was home alone when they sensed that someone had forced entry. They saw someone walking away with their mo… (View Post)

The problem is that the law is only the law if people follow the law. If the government of the day say that they accept the Supreme Court judgement on the law, but in practice do not follow it, then … (View Post)

Israel has 250 self-propelled 155mm artillery guns, and a whole bunch more of various different artillery calibres in storage. Do we know to what extent they used artillery in Gaza, or whether they r… (View Post)

What Osborne established is that the markets are mollified by a barely credible plan to cut the deficit (to some extent) in the future, but that future can (at least at the moment) be put off indefin… (View Post)

One of the annoying trends in British governance has been the extent to which government has gone in the opposite direction to that. Everything is a special one-off scheme so that the politicians can… (View Post)