Should our priority be to build up our conventional forces for action abroad, or to have them poised for rapid response here at home?
A double-talking, flip-flopping, party of spendthrifts will aggravate – not salve – public mistrust of the political class.
The crisis wasn’t on the agenda at Cabinet this week. Some Conservative Cabinet Ministers now want a pledge to hit the two per cent goal. They are right.
A clear plan. A strong retail offer. The right direction. A vision for the country. Labour’s strategic failure. And let’s not forget…Ed Miliband.
The two battered main parties would do well to speak honestly about the challenges and costs we face.
There are strict limits to what we can or should do for Ukraine. However, NATO member countries are a different matter.
Including the latest from the rolling future leadership hustings at the Pale, Male and stale Dining Club.
Endorsement from the NAO is a concrete demonstration of how the Conservatives have transformed the Ministry of Defence.
Plus: Charlie Hebdo and 7/7. Mildenhall’s closure: a garden city opportunity? More bad news for the Bow Group. And: I ditch the Telegraph for the Times.
It remains a real threat to both our interests and our allies throughout the Middle East.
For the sake of our national security, we need a different process – in which the opposition parties and industry participate and, if possible, agree.
As our protectors fought for us a century ago, so their descendants defend us today.
96 years after World War I and 25 since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the time has come for Germany to increase defence spending.
A hundred years ago, the Great War had just started and little did the people of that time know how tragic it would be.
We need three, if not four, new Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.