At least £150m of this is to pay for US kit. Britain is providing an extra half a billion pounds in urgent air defence to Ukraine and will play a central part in NATO’s Arctic security mission. This … (View Post)

That doesn't really address the premise of the article, which is the need for Europe (and by extension, the UK) to create some degree of strategic independence from the US, on whom we're fa… (View Post)

That's for the hospitality trade ? (View Post)

Another article by Tom Tugendhat on defence procurement. Fragmented force Why Europe struggles with capability and readiness https://thereset.tomtugendhat.org/p/fragmented-force ..European armed forc… (View Post)

But closing down businesses isn't, and prices have contributed to the demise of manufacturing industry. In theory renewables - particularly solar - ought to drive down prices. In practice that h… (View Post)