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The Healey Review must find, fund, furnish and field the necessary forces. If, as may be the case, the UK can’t easily deliver on all capabilities, Healey must decide which to abandon.

The immediate problem Mr Healey must fix, ideally long before his review completes, is the RAF’s haemorrhage of trained personnel, and clear the logjam in pilot training. Without that, there will be no RAF.

Mr Healey knew he was likely to be Defence Secretary after three years shadowing the role. He knows what the major problems are. When is he going to do something about it?

THE NEXT President of the United States is 78, and has already been shot at once while under secret service protection. He happened to turn his head as the bullet flew past him…

If Reeves can find money for bumper pay rises for train drivers she can find it for the armed services. If she can’t, or won’t, then the First Lord of The Treasury, Sir Kier Starmer, should find a Chancellor who can.

Revealing a climate scientist who believed in a new ice age, and why ANYONE TEMPTED to believe the hysterical warnings of imminent environmental collapse put out by Ed Miliband MP or Gillian Martin…

“I am in little doubt Reform UK is much more likely to grow substantially than wither. The scales are falling from people’s eyes. I judge there is culturally little to pick between large swathes of England and the cultural values of many Scots. This terrifies the elite.”

For too long, the Holyrood five have catered almost exclusively to middle-class liberals with socialist instincts. Reform UK offers a lifeline to those who feel abandoned by this consensus.

The looming council tax hikes and the controversial fuel payments to millionaires highlight a need for more nuanced and targeted fiscal strategies

Life, death and planning policy in fighting Ukraine and socialist Argyll NOW that the soft, amnesiac blanket of caring, north-London socialism has fallen again on north Britain, like a layer of…