History is full of this - you can't conduct foreign policy solely on the basis of "my enemy's enemy is my friend". It has a place but in moderation. We propped up some odious regimes during… (View Post)

I'm glad we agree but I still don't see anyone's Middle East policy thinking beyond containment. The ghost of Iraq clearly hangs heavy when we went in to Baghdad with the aim of toppling Saddam (laud… (View Post)

Morning. I don't disagree with a lot of your comment - the destabilising inpact of Hamas, Hezbollah and the pro-Iranian Houthis goes far beyond what they do or try to do to Israel. They have weakened… (View Post)

Probably but it's pretty standard practice when the word from on high is costs have to be reduced. When I was in local Government, we would routinely model 10, 15 and even 25% reductions in budget to… (View Post)

Evening all :) Not sure quite how we find space for 50,000 additional prisoners given the disaster that was Conservative prison policy. (View Post)