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 toppli… (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 wea… (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 budg… (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)

No, what you can't make up is a Party which led the Government of this countrty for 14 years and did the sum total of nothing to improve prison capacity or recruit more prison officers leaving t… (View Post)