By now the world has become used to US President Trump’s outlandish, bombastic, and usually unfounded outbursts on all sorts of topics as he plies his transactional politics on us all. Anyone with any sense ignores them and shrugs them off. However a new nadir was reached with his comments on the AfghanistanContinue reading “Trump Takes Back Insults To Britain’s War Dead”
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£5bn, Eight Years Late and Unusable: MPs Signal the End of the Army’s Ajax Farce
Ajax Armoured Vehicle Finally Killed Off After £5bn Spent and Years of Failure The statement made in the House of Commons yesterday by Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence Luke Pollard MP has most probably sounded the death knell of the troubled British army armoured cavalry vehicle Ajax. Already at least eightContinue reading “£5bn, Eight Years Late and Unusable: MPs Signal the End of the Army’s Ajax Farce”
12 Squadron begins deployment to the Gulf region reflecting the strong UK-Qatar defence partnership that helps to keep the UK secure at home and strong abroad
Copyright and all rights reserved – .gov.uk The Royal Air Force’s joint Typhoon squadron with Qatar, 12 Squadron, has deployed to the Gulf for defensive purposes noting regional tensions as part of the UK-Qatar Defence Assurance Agreement, demonstrating the strong and enduring defence relationship between the UK and Qatar. 12 Squadron has regularly deployedContinue reading “12 Squadron begins deployment to the Gulf region reflecting the strong UK-Qatar defence partnership that helps to keep the UK secure at home and strong abroad”
Inflation Up Again: Shoppers Struggle, Small Firms Caught in the Squeeze
Food Prices Bite as Inflation Jumps — Pubs and Households Feel the Pain Inflation is up to 3.4%. The analysis shows the rise in the rate at which prices are rising it down to tobacco, air fares and food prices mainly. Food inflation is at 4.5% and that matters a lot to UK households.Continue reading “Inflation Up Again: Shoppers Struggle, Small Firms Caught in the Squeeze”
Trump’s blunt truth on Chagos exposes a dangerous British folly
Join our free subscriber list [and pass it on to anyone who might benefit.] Donald Trump is rarely a model of diplomatic restraint. Yet every so often his instinctive bluntness cuts through layers of official obfuscation. His intervention on the proposed handover of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands toContinue reading “Trump’s blunt truth on Chagos exposes a dangerous British folly”