Alisdair Bach - Geo Politics

@TfL when will the liz be running again ABW to Heathrow ?

@RecoSpurs You won’t beat Everton so 6 points won’t save you ⚒️

My totally unnecessary positives… ✅ I wasn’t expecting 3 points today ✅ We only really need to beat Wolves, Leeds and Everton ✅ Every other fixture is irrelevant ✅ Sunderland only scored with a very, very lucky deflection ✅ De Zerbi will have more time with his players

@ROTS1882 None

What are the positives of going down?

@ClarksonsFarm1 Procrastination

What does Britain do better than any other Country?🇬🇧

@MattWallace888 Article 5

🚨 JUST IN: Benjamin Netanyahu issues major threat to Spain 🚨 “We have the most moral army in the world, but you are about to pay an immediate price”

@thinkdefence @SpencerGuard Well we cant can we no as90 and soon no warrior but war is coming and we are binning kit that works ?

@SpencerGuard That would depend upon your definition of heavy, division, and deploy 😀

"Could we [UK] deploy a heavy division to Europe if the need arose?"

@bobbi_efc__ 100%

Anyone reckon spurs are actually going down

@Sam6WHU Sam yesterdays team was our strongest we have which on a good day is sub mid table - consider that look at the team that beat lyon away these 2 would be on the bench

The difference these 2 somehow make to our team should be studied. From a far it’s nothing glamorous - you won’t see 30 G/A yet but you’ll see grit & team work. We’re a better side with them & they’re still adapting to the PL. No coincidence weve improved since their arrival.

@MalcolmMoody13 @Gabriel64869839 I’d do a very quick options paper on an enlarged river class with hanger and gun v a type 31 as the River is just smaller than a type 12 and it comes down to who can knock these out asap

@Gabriel64869839 The 'plan' should be to up arm the type 31s' ad add another 4 ships' - Brilliant, Diadem, Hotspur & Rapid to the class.

MoD photo of HMS Mersey keeping an eye on the russians Admiral Grigorovich and Krasnodar. Circa 2 years left for the RIVER Batch 1s. Absolutely nothing, instead, on any real plan to fill the hole in sea days and presence and crew training spaces that their loss represents.

@thinkdefence Ok do we cheer the toilet paper order as well

This is great news isnt it, 30km range is decent, provides an outer layer to complement CAMM and Martlet. But how low cost is low cost, as usual, not much forthcoming from the MoD

@Sam6WHU Why ? we have it on us to win today - if we don’t we are down and so what could be worst ! perspective and context

I genuinely can’t even describe how nervous I am for tonight, or just how massive this game feels! The stakes couldn’t be higher - we just need the boys to step up and play the way they have in 2026 & we’ve got to be right behind them from the very first whistle! COYI!

@thinkdefence More management consultants

You have been given an extra ten billion quid a year for defence, what you buying?

@thinkdefence NO Build 6 x extended riverclass with hanger and Gun 2,800 tons cheap as chips ask japan to build

These are absolutely not 'fighting vessels' with complex self-defence systems, but they are still robust, built for demanding use in harsh environments. Above all, they are cheap. So in a pragmatic world, they might be worth the compromises

@johnredwood You tell us you were in govt ? collective responsibility or deniability

Israel has more military in uniform, an Iron Dome protection, more than six times as many tanks and twice as many combat aircraft than the UK for a smaller budget. Why can’t the UK government get more for our defence money?

@thinkdefence No Starmer has got away with out having to publish the defence spending plan or increase the investment, this will soon be forgotten about as we go into the May elections

Does anyone genuinely think the last few months has moved the dial on UK defence and resilience spending? Many words will certainly be written, but will cash and action follow?

@BenObeseJecty @JamesCleverly Ben - where has James been hiding ? playing an estate agent in Tory tiktok videos - you did the damage and Labour are lost in the headlights

“Now that a ceasefire has been announced he’s gone scuttling off to the Middle-East in a desperate attempt to appear relevant. Frankly, the damage is done. He has cost the UK a lot of standing in the international stage.” James Cleverly, who knows the relationships in the Middle-East like few others, highlighting how Keir Starmer’s milquetoast “leadership” in response to the Iran conflict has irreparably damaged his, and by extension the UK’s, standing both with the US and with our allies in the Gulf. Weak at home. Weak internationally. Keir Starmer has been found wanting when the country needed firm, decisive action, target than a man being buffeted in the wind and lucky that events haven’t spiralled completely out of his control.

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC Pants on fire James - Tories from 2010 absolutely hollowed out all 3 services

Who is to blame for 'hollowing out' Britain's military? Sir James Cleverly blames the Prime Minister. But some of @NickFerrariLBC's listeners get in touch to argue otherwise.

@mpwarwick @thinkdefence This breakfast was purchased a stones throw from Thinks grail

Today I have pilgrimaged to @thinkdefence’s holy place.

@_johnbye Oh yes the 82nd jumped into the Straits of Hamous following a Russian Invasion

If you're British and of a certain age, you probably remember watching / being traumatised by Threads, the BBC film about the impact of a nuclear war on the people of Sheffield. But do you remember how that war started?

@thinkdefence Russia won - mates with Iran and Israel - bank full, exports of kit all time high, Ukraine short of missiles win win win and in the new world order Victor is a hero - let’s hope they don’t get any ideas and make a dash for the gap !

Let me guess, Iran won and the USA lost, Iran lost and the USA won. Pick your opinion, plenty all round.