I’ve said before, several times, that satellite reconnaissance is probably as important and more useful than the nuclear deterrent, and that technical change means that it’s feasible. Here’s an example: Canada just launched its own independent radar satellite, with the object of monitoring the vast spaces of the Arctic. Even smaller economies than the UK…
Read More Canadian Menace: In SpaceKen Livingstone is surely unelectable now, sez one of the sinister faceless committee/gaggle of sockpuppets attached to Daniel Davies that is Aaronovitch Watch. Jesus, I hope not; the prospect of Boris Johnson being put in charge of London is too much to contemplate. Consider this; Ken brought a load of old hard-left mates with him…
Read More Open up my eager eyes…I’m Mr BrightsideYou think things were bad in Pakistan? Think again; if Dawn‘s sources are worth anything, it’s now the policy of the British government, in the person of David Miliband, to get behind Nawaz Sharif and the Saudi lobby in Pakistani politics. We warned you; it looks like they’re heading for a kind of negative excellence…
Read More I got the poison! I got the remedy!Under-reported story of the week; reported, of course, by Ackerman. I think this is going to be very significant indeed. Roll back, if we may, to the winter of 2006; it had just become authorised knowledge that things in Iraq were unpeachy, Rumsfeld had just been thrown off the sleigh, and the Baker-Hamilton commission was…
Read More A ragged army fixing bayonets…