I hope you mean the deeper question about on what the extra defence spending (if actually required) would go and whether the lessons learnt from Ukraine and elsewhere mean we need to comprehensively … (View Post)

From what I've read, restoring the cap would save between £2 billion and £3.5 billion so it's a drop in the ocean as well as a cheap political slogan. Do the Conservatives have any answers … (View Post)

Cheap jibes aside, let's get serious on numbers. I've seen the UK is spending £83 billion on defence this year - defence ranks fifth behind Social Care/Welfare (£379 billion), Health (£277 … (View Post)

I hadn't seen the news Maduro has been captured. Analogous to the seizure of Noriega in 1989. Whether you think Maduro's election was fair or fraudulent (and there's certainly evidence… (View Post)

I was idly wondering if Maduro and his wife might end up as the Ceaucescus de nos jours but I suspect not. The Venezulean VP seems to be quite rightly seeking assurances Maduro and his wife haven… (View Post)