The issue with military spending isn’t so much the amount of money spent, although that is important to some extent, but the way in which it’s spent. Wartime spending looks very different from peacet… (View Post)

One advantage of the Ukraine war is that, whatever one’s view of the last three decades of geopolitics in that region, when it comes to the war itself there’s clearly one set of good guys and one set… (View Post)

Just catching up on the day’s events after going out for a long lunch (but got volunteered to be the driver). So Macron brokered a meeting between Trump and Zelensky, but Starmer couldn’t be arsed to… (View Post)

Who’s actually putting in the money behind “Tortoise” - and what have they actually bought, just the name and Carol Cadwalladr’s legal liabilities? (View Post)

How many asses have actually being kicked? He may talk a good lawyer’s game about kicking ass, nudge nudge wink wink, but actually kicking the ass is what’s important. (View Post)