By
Richard North -
26 April 2024
With the opportunity to question strategic defence assumptions having been missed by the MP collective in the Commons – not that it would have made much difference given the low quality of the denizens – we are left with an increasingly unchallenged narrative that the nation is on the countdown to war. If, within the… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
25 April 2024
Before our very eyes, yesterday, we saw parliament demonstrate its abject failure to exercise its hard-earned powers – and the worst of it is that hardly anyone seems to have noticed. To understand the full extent of this dereliction of duty, we must remind ourselves that the primary constitutional role of parliament, as it developed,… View Article ...Read full story
By
Richard North -
24 April 2024
Ostensibly, this is a post about defence but, actually, it isn’t. This is politics at its worst – the news that Sunak has announced on a visit to Poland (pictured) that he would put Britain’s defence industry “on a war footing”, while “unveiled” a commitment to £75 billion in new funding that will take the… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
23 April 2024
So, it’s back to work after the riotous 20-year anniversary celebrations (not) and, with a busy news agenda, there’s a lot going on that needs looking at. But, as always, what may turn out to be some of the most crucial issues of the moment are not being reported by the legacy media. No more… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
22 April 2024
Unlike a jail sentence, there is no time off for good behaviour when publishing a blog. The sentence is indeterminate, although self-determined. One stops when one can no longer continue or when there is no longer any value in so doing, and the will to continue evaporates. I can’t say that any of those conditions… View Article ...Read full story
