I could not in good conscience allow a Bill to continue that would have fundamentally changed the nature of the way we interact with one another for the worse.
Only with my amendments in place can the bill truly protect security, privacy, and freedom of speech.
There is a danger that the military becomes merely a reserve of manpower for domestic services, rather than an instrument of our global ambitions.
“It’s simply a reality that all phones – including government ones – are easily hacked,” a Minister told me. “The difference with government phones is that they’re regularly tracked so we know about it sooner when it’s obvious – which it usually isn’t.”
Interrupting other pipelines would cause havoc on the energy markets and prevent Europe heating itself this winter. They would be no different to German attacks on allied food convoys in the First and Second World Wars.
Support for Ukraine must not waver, but we must not be blind to the risks – but instead seek to manage them as best we can.
But there are truths in life – for example, that a stich in time saves nine, beggars can’t be choosers…and that you can’t spend more than your earn. His premiership ends with record spending and taxes.
Russia is running out of time be able to split Europe with high gas prices: it looks now as though it won’t. In this round of energy blackmail, Putin has come off no better than Arthur Scargill.
However unsavoury, we must prepare contingency plans for tactical nuclear warheads deployment. Signalling that we will go hard, early is a must and is being resisted by our elite who still drink the Fukuyaman Kool-Aid.
If Truss is set on rewriting the Integrated Review, she will need bandwidth at the top of govenment to do so effectively, given the awesome scale of the economic challenges facing her.
It’s no good massing troops in eastern Europe if the western powers depend on Beijing for critical industries and infrastructure.
Since at least 2008, he has been striving to ‘Make Russia Great Again’ through the old Tsarist gambit of ‘strategic depth.’
The Court has simply made up its jurisdiction to provide interim relief. More specific to this case, it had no proper application before it.
It costs our economy some £137 billion a year. Just a small amount of that could more than cover the costs of a new force and save banks and insurers billions.
In the geo-political battle of ideas, between an open, liberal vision of government and society, and a more authoritarian template, the continent, overwhelmingly, is in the right column.