Tom W | @DeskLightStudy
My existence is currently reading, writing and walking📚 | Comprehensive Security is my jam. @kingscollegelon @warstudies 🦁 | Yorkshire based Yorkshire and The Humber, Engl Joined June 2024-
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The two things can simultaneously be true. It's a fair question to ask *why* this is the case!
Skys security & defence editor: "We know our army, navy, air force has been hollowed out since the end of the cold war" According to the Intl Institute for Strategic Studies the UK is the 5th highest military spender in the world (only the US, China, Russia & Germany spend more)
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🚨🇬🇧 NEW: Keir Starmer is interested in becoming NATO Secretary-General when the post becomes vacant in 2028 [@ObserverUK]
really fun to get a masters degree, apply for 5 jobs, get rejected by 3 of them within a week, and now i get 10 spam phone calls a day because they sold my data
Some ideas for the next government
The UK can barely admit that disabled people are disabled, you’ll be able to fry an egg on your desk before the law admits your workplace is unsafe
can the uk start adjusting rules and regulations to match this heat bc im so tired
Worth reading Dominic Lawson's piece in the Sunday Times... He's circling something I've been saying for months.… the MoD's problem is not just that it has too little money. It's that it cannot reliably turn the money it has into capability on the front line. Ajax. Nimrod. Carrier strike. The pattern is always the same. Bespoke kit, built late, over budget, often for a conflict that has already changed by the time it arrives. Meanwhile in Ukraine, a £400 drone destroys a £4 million tank. If we are genuinely serious about defending this country and building our national resilience, the first job is not the spending figure. It’s fixing the procurement system that decides what the money buys. thetimes.com/article/0d0bfe…
Burnham failing to appoint Miliband as Chancellor would be the clearest possible signal that our economic doomloop will continue without even a whisper of interruption. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss time. Autumn Budget will be *fun* and by that I mean terrible.
The number 1 thing pisses me off today is how every company realized they can still technically operate at the bare minimum if they run a skeleton crew for everything. So now every service sucks, both for the workers and the customers, and we can't do anything.
Liberals have no right to complain about Musk, or his views. He's the inevitable consequence of untrammelled capitalism.
This is Maginot Line thinking for a blitzkrieg world. Hybrid warfare means we need to move beyond the zero-sum and self-defeating narrative of warfare vs welfare. Hybrid warfare means we need resilient armed forces alongside a resilient society & economy.
Al Carns, who quit last night as armed forces minister, says there is an argument about whether welfare cuts could fund defence spending ‘The reality is we are fighting amongst each other to get more money for the key unifying principle of any government which is to protect this
Fucking stupid comments like this actually undermine the argument for greater defence spending. Russia will not, in any circumstance, invade the UK. It doesn't want to, it doesn't need to, and it can't. Its ambition for the UK is to neutralise us. Very, very different.
Ex-Navy boss thinks if Labour spend on breakfast clubs, we leave ourselves open to Russian invasion
The UK is very vulnerable in a worrying number of areas. However, there is a conversation to be had as to WHY we are so vulnerable when we spend so much money on defence. Where is it spent? For example, we are an island nation with basically no land-based air defences. Madness.
".. 2 senior people saying.. we can't defend our country. It presents us [in] a ridiculous position on the world stage & very vulnerable" Very vulnerable? The UK is already the 5th highest military spender in the world (only the US, China, Russia & Germany spend more than us)
Now this is interesting...
"There's no point me having a glamorous, comfortable retirement if the country that I bequeath to my children is at great military risk" General Sir Richard Barrons says he would "release the triple lock in order to put more money back into things like defence." #Newsnight
Absolutely spot on.
The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point. In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their
BREAKING: John Healey resigns as defence secretary over military spending plans
Also worth pointing out that Robinson is presently in Moscow. The UK's information environment is a complete and utter disaster.
‘Suspected HMO’s’ Cheering on the arson of homes in 🤞🏽HOPE🤞🏽 that they’re HMO’s housing migrants. You’ll end up going to jail for arson/attempted murder or worse while Tommy sits and laughs at you with his feet up… 🤷🏽♂️
Can't be absolutely certain but it very much looks like Tommy Robinson is in the Shalyapin Bar of the Hotel Metropol in Moscow with Errol Musk.
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