This is a war between two visions of human life. And ours is the better.
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.
The problem facing Britain is not that prices are too high, but that the safety net – which Tories have always supported – is too low.
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.
Loyalty works both ways: ministers should widen existing schemes for Afghans so they match the generosity of those available to Ukrainians.
What is less recognised is the way in which David Cameron’s Government decided, not without risk to the Conservatives’ electoral prospects in some key marginals, to withhold patronage and money from some Muslim organisations that, fitfully, had gained both under Labour.
We have let autocracies grow rich too long. As the old Roman saying had it: if you want to live in peace, prepare for war.
An excessively sentimental attitude towards the military has gone hand-in-hand with decades of cuts.
Since at least 2008, he has been striving to ‘Make Russia Great Again’ through the old Tsarist gambit of ‘strategic depth.’
Delivering the right vehicle cannot be premised on the idea that non-EU states are merely satellites of Brussels.
Inability or unwillingness to act in the military sphere should not lead to counter-productive hyperactivity in others.
Opinion in the region is far from monolithic – but with a widespread expectation that the conflict could spread beyond its current borders.
On the one hand, conscription, with the failure it would confirm, would be perilous for Putin. On the other, stalled Ukrainian progress, a Russian economic squeeze – and western division.