Not really. The drones Ukraine uses this month are improvements on those they used last month. It's all in a state of rapid evolution, somewhat analogous to the use of airplanes in WWI, except m… (View Post)

Since the defence review a year ago, Ukraine has stopped sending troops to the UK for training, as what they were learning is obsolete. As is much of our existing army structure. In spring 2022, a Uk… (View Post)

Pretty well what I expected. (View Post)

Er, not at the moment. ..It was also expecting to revive a post-Brexit returns agreement that has so far seen only one asylum seeker returned to Ireland from the UK. The deal agreed in 2020 was delay… (View Post)

Absent privatisation it simply would have been possible for the financiers to extract tens of billions from the industry, crippling its ability to fund new infrastructure. That's pretty fundamen… (View Post)