Say no lockdowns and the UK rode a single large wave.* When the hospital system collapsed and aged aunts were left to die in nightingale sports halls & conference centres what trauma would that l… (View Post)

In purely competitive terms: It doesn't help if you gift them your industrial base and a century of R & D over about 30 years. Offshoring our industry to cheaper climes has been a short term bona… (View Post)

You can't make 'virgin' steels without a blast furnace. Arc furnaces are used for recycling scrap. The UK is losing part of its economic complexity. (View Post)

What happens when Reform start trumpeting the 1.3 million? This could well sink Rishi. (View Post)

We have little say, but we are involved e.g. >Rearming and resupplying Israel from RAF Akrotiri >Providing signals intelligence from drones and planes in the med >Supporting the American med… (View Post)