As you will all know, yesterday was the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.  I won’t get all anti French here, but … well you all know who won (and lost)! What I will do here is bring to light the fact that the old Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, which […]

For those of you immune to the charms of spoof postings on property websites selling Ireland here’s a genuine For Sale post, and the product really is available. HMS Invincible. Availability is listed as In Stock, which is handy for Christmas. Buyer collection only, which is a pain if your tugboat […]

Now it’s not often that, in a complete range of today’s front pages the one you’d single out to agree completely with is the Daily Express. In fact, even typing that feels strange. Nevertheless, there it is. Iain Martin in the WSJ put it bluntly a few days ago: Ringfencing […]

Some in-depth analysis when the Zen calming exercises start to work. Update: Actually not going to bother. Any plan which involves pouring an extra £2 billion into the pockets of Somalian warlords and Pakistan government officials thinking that it will be a better guarantor of our security than maintaining a […]

Dear David We are nearing the culmination of the work we promised to deliver on our approach to national security; the NSC meeting tomorrow is a key opportunity to set out the risk and consequences of that work for our NSC colleagues. This is not a letter I am copying to […]

Many trees have died today carrying us the story that the Royal Navy may share our new carriers with France. What’s worse is that it’s been officially denied by the MoD, which means it’s true (and the French have called a press conference for Friday). It’s hardly new news though. […]

One of the most stupid, short-sighted and unpopular pledges by the incoming Conservatives was the pledge to ring-fence the Overseas Aid budget. It was an idea so mind-bogglingly retarded that even the handwringing bearded weirdie LibDems didn’t suggest it; which is saying something. On the list of the poor and […]

From the BBC we see that the LibDems are trying to carve out a political niche over the future of our nuclear deterrent. Or a clear yellow streak of water, you might say. Devon MPs have clashed over the future of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarines which are refitted at […]

All four co-conspirators on All Seeing Eye have a close association with the Forces; that’s what initially brought St Crispin and TheEye together on this blog. Our family members are in harms way and when given the chance, St Crispin is out there doing his bit for Queen and Country in […]

Typical of our Prime Mentalist to surface for a blatant photo opportunity in the desert. Entertainingly there is a veritable car-park full of vehicles neatly lined up behind him for the occasion. One presumes that they weren’t needed anywhere else today and are surplus to requirements. If anyone dies today […]