@Kasparov63 Indeed. Western countries should form a queue to get advice from the Ukrainian forces. They can provide real insight.
Meanwhile in Britain we’ve doubled off £6blion on armoured vehicles that incapacitate their crews.
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BiggestBear
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I do not shit in the woods, unless it is in a toilet. What sort of animal do you take me for?
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A CEO that saw a fantastic rise of share value due to the Ukrainian ability to withstand Russian aggression should be more polite in evaluating their technological prowess… Of course, now he is mostly concerned about losing defense spending in favor of more advanced weapons.
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This is the dismissive, antiquated, losing BS I was concerned about when I asked the German Defense Minister about budget allocations and Ukrainian innovation at the Munich Security Conference last month. Just spending more on defense doesn’t always defend you.
Simon Shuster@shustry
I asked Europe's main producer of tanks and artillery what he thinks about the cheap drones wrecking all those tanks and artillery pieces in Ukraine. "This is not innovation," he said of the Ukrainian weapons. "This is how to play with Legos." An exclusive interview with Armin Papperger in my profile of his company, @RheinmetallAG, whose stock price has grown 15-fold since the Russian invasion, as the Europeans buy up all the tanks and artillery he can produce. Out today @TheAtlantic. Gift link below.
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The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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I’ve long believed in the power of procurement.
It can strengthen Britain's critical industrial resilience as part of what I call 'securonomics'.
And applying a new 'public interest test' for contracting decisions will strengthen our public services.
theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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@AcademicAgent_X Wow mass migration hit in the late 90s and it was never the same again
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Real-terms GDP per capita growth per Prime Minister:
Winston Churchill: +0.8%
Clement Attlee: +3.2%
Winston Churchill: +9.8%
Anthony Eden: +4.5%
Harold Macmillan: +14.3%
Alec Douglas-Home: +2.3%
Harold Wilson: +13.6%
Edward Heath: +8.1%
Harold Wilson: +3.8%
James Callaghan: +5.5%
Margaret Thatcher: +2.7%
John Major: +7.2%
Tony Blair: +7.8%
Gordon Brown: +1.9%
David Cameron: -12.9%
Theresa May: -7.4%
Boris Johnson: -3.7%
Liz Truss: 0.0%
Rishi Sunak: -1.0%
Keir Starmer: -1.0%
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I immediately called out the Golders Green ambulance attack as a false flag.
I was attacked not just from the right, but by the whole weight of the "Corbynite" left, repeating again their mistake of kow-towing to false accusations of anti-semitism.
Apologies yet?
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Q: Has there been an increase in Russia's support for Iran?
Rubio: “There is nothing Russia is doing for Iran that is in any way impeding or affecting our operations”
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@AmnestyUK So lame. What even is the point of your organisation now?
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@caasecoalition We condemn all forms of hate crime and discrimination. Unfortunately we can't campaign on everything.
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The British built the first true aircraft carrier (Argus). They built the first battleship (Dreadnought). They built the first useful torpedoes (Austria made some earlier, but they sucked). They built the first torpedo boats. They built the first destroyer (admittedly for sale to Spain). They built the first battle cruisers. They built the first torpedo plane. They created the first depth charges. They were the first navy to sink an enemy ship with an air-launched torpedo. They showed the Japanese how to attack Pearl Harbor by doing the same thing to Taranto in Italy. They invented radar (after which the USA ran with it).
All dust in the wind now I guess, like Carthage.
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… and to think that in November of 1918, the Royal Navy had 61 battleships, 120 cruisers and 466 destroyers. Their peak. Then everything went downhill. Did they need numbers like that after the Great War? No. But to see it in this condition today is unconscionable.
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DFM Kate Forbes described the decision as "sabotage of Scotland's industrial future.
"This decision has been sitting on the desks of UK ministers for over 18 months - their dithering will have far-reaching consequences that once again, will be left for Scotland to deal with."
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc
So the £1.5bn Ming Yang wind turbine project for the Highlands will not go ahead because of national security concerns. A UKG spokesman said: "Industry have sought our view on the use of these turbines in British waters and in our energy system. After careful consideration, 1/
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This decision is a hammer blow to Scotland not least because the decision could have been made when the UK Labour Party came into Government
18 months gathering dust whilst repeated
attempts by @theSNP to get a decision have been ignored
Scotland needs it #Independence ASAP
The National@ScotNational
LATEST: The UK Government has blocked a Chinese firm’s £1.5 billion investment in a Highland wind farm factory over security concerns #Echobox=1774453361-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/25968557.…
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Labour has blocked £1.5bn of investment into the Scotland by China because of 'national security' issues. Why then did Starmer approve the Chinese mega-embassy in London?
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Can’t have the Scottish Highlands getting investment that could instead go to England. Watch out for the deal being redone in a few months “down south” with the “national security concerns” having been magically addressed.
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc
So the £1.5bn Ming Yang wind turbine project for the Highlands will not go ahead because of national security concerns. A UKG spokesman said: "Industry have sought our view on the use of these turbines in British waters and in our energy system. After careful consideration, 1/
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@DanielJHannan @jhallwood For once, I agree with Hannan.
Business as usual later.
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@JohnSwinney But you’re ok spending millions importing Chinese buses rather than buying UK ones?
Hypocrite.
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Deeply disappointed that the UK Labour government has blocked Ming Yang’s investment in our renewables industry - putting up to 1500 Scottish jobs at risk.
At the very moment we should be building clean energy, they are sabotaging Scotland’s industrial future.
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@MiloTindle9 Stop crying. Fuel duty has hardly changed for years and years.
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It costs approximately £100 to fill up my car.
£60 of that is to pay her for the privilege.
GIF
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@JohnSwinney You’re very happy as it gives you something else to whinge about
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