Evening all :) The Conservatives polled 12.7 million or 47% of the votes cast in England in 2019. In July, Rishi Sunak's party got 6.3 million so roughly half so where did the 6.4 million voters… (View Post)

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 regi… (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 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)