The UK’s current #BeKind mindset must change if as a society we are ever to reach the level of military readiness aspired to by our NATO partners.
Any sincere reading of the British economy since 2010 need acknowledge one basic thing: that the essential problem with the modern economy isn’t income inequality, but a lack of income.
Moscow needs to keep throwing large numbers of relatively under-equipped men under artillery cover at Ukrainian defences. A new source of terrorism will drain a proportion of those resources, making things more difficult.
The UK needs to be prepared for a possible reality in which the EU may be a more significant player in European defence and security.
The Chancellor spoke to Trevor Phillips after Vladimir Putin linked the Moscow terror attack – estimated to have killed 133 people – to Ukraine.
The West needs to learn again that appeasement does not work.
In 2021 Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States began a consultation process to upgrade Canberra’s submarine capability – AUKUS. That now looks highly prescient.
Transnistria may be small and obscure, but the antics of its Russia-backed government are another warning of how comprehensive Putin’s ambitions to restore the old USSR have become.
If you believe the role of our Armed Forces is to save lives by convincing potential aggressors that we would defeat them, then we are palpably failing.
This murder signals that Moscow no longer cares what the collective West thinks, and is set on a course of confrontation. There is a ruthlessness to it the consequences of which we have not yet grasped.
Amidst all the sound and fury prompted by Trump on both sides of the Atlantic, the highly inconvenient truth is that he is correct. In the defence context, too many European countries have been delinquent for decades.
Despite European NATO’s technological superiority over Russia, we will struggle to defend against a Russian attack: only Finland and Poland have land equipment on the necessary scale.
According to government figures, 32 per cent of businesses and 24 per cent of charities have experienced breaches or attacks in the past 12 months.
By investing in areas overseas that are challenged by poverty and conflict, we help reduce the likelihood of the consequences of those challenges, such as terrorism, irregular migration, and humanitarian disasters, reaching the United Kingdom.