British Army
“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”
Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?
Protect veterans from vindictive prosecutions
The Overseas Operations Bill may prove Britain’s breaking point with the ECHR
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Public memory of the war in Iraq fails to consider the human cost
Born on the Fourth of July
Us Brits need to come to an honest reckoning over what happened in Afghanistan
Britain’s armed forces to the rescue?
And is Scottish Labour still relevant for Starmer’s Labour Party?
My gratitude to the Cold War
As the the British Army presence in Germany came to an end, so did a way of life that engraved itself into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Brits and Germans.
Squaring the Afghan Peace Deal
Afghanistan is a general disaster which touches everyone and was enabled by everyone
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Blue de grâce?
The next election could spell doom for the Conservative Party
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
