It ought to help, at the cost of more inconvenience for the law abiding (see also banking, or even dealing with a solicitor). What's dispiriting is that it's been fairly obvious for years that this i… (View Post)

And that is only at a given point in time, of course. Economic conditions change all the time, and the number of confounding factors is essentially infinite. An analogy might be trying to model turbu… (View Post)

We don't - particularly not a model that no other army is going to order. As for Ajax, there's a perfectly good IFV that BAE makes that's been available for years. Which is cheaper, and is and will b… (View Post)

No one is saying that it would be. But our defence establishment is claiming - as a basis for spending billions on legacy systems (which take a decade or more to commission) and not spending those bi… (View Post)

How did it go last time we intervened military in a civil war ? Also, I quoted Trump directly. (View Post)