On paper, the UK has large stockpiles of last-generation tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other materiel explicitly stockpiled to combat Russian aggression in Europe.
We must do more to dispel the fears held by Muslims and EU citizens. Also important is boosting the right to buy.
As a new manifesto is being finalised, it is time to review how our 2017 commitments on defence have worked out.
A stricter separation between church and state at local level would safeguard against political patronage.
Greater clarity is needed to prevent special interest groups from presenting a misleading picture.
If the Cabinet Office won’t help defend democracy, why should ordinary citizens do it? The wrong signal is being sent out.
It is not especially low tax, nor is it unregulated – though it is certainly a more business-friendly environment then the UK. Here is why it works.
English law is clear on how foster placements should be made and that “the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration”.
Successful Singapore is simply copying what previous Conservative governments have done – namely, to deliver directly hundreds of thousands of new houses.
The most dramatic option is to cut whole areas of capability in order to focus on the remaining core ones.
We should not disenfranchise existing EU voters but give voting rights to American, Brazilian and Chinese council taxpayers.
They cannot stop development but they can shape it and help deliver more homes as well as infrastructure.
We can achieve higher density without ruining the skyline of London.
For every new grammar-run satellite school we would have five satellite schools run by councils ideologically opposed to losing control.
The objective seems to be to help it survive and to stay in the fight (with perhaps 70,000 dead already), but not for it to win back its lost territories in a timely manner.