December 2012

David Axe has a good piece on how vulnerable drones are to any kind of organised air defence. “The predominant use of RPAs [Remotely Piloted Aircraft] over the past decade has been passive [intelligence] collection coupled with air-to-ground strikes in permissive airspace,” Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Tadd Sholtis tells Danger Room. “There’s very little…

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Birdy! For it is he, back out of the woodwork to tell us that there might be a surge in homelessness, up or rather down to the depths of the 80s. Well, that’s grim, and only surprising in that the Tories took just two-and-a-half years to get back to mass homelessness. Unlike Birdy I promise…

Read More TYR Rewind: slip inside this house and fuel the fire

So, another TYR Rewind. Here’s a post on last year’s Treasury Autumn Statement, or rather, on the Guardian‘s pitifully spun reporting of it. As a foretaste, here’s the weekend’s Obscurer piece. Last time out, the worst had been briefed out to the papers over the weekend, thus tanking everyone’s expectations so the sops placed on…

Read More the 6th Army has been destroyed. chocolate ration news follows on Tuesday

Subtitle: and she did, over Christmas, 2010. Deborah Mattinson argues that Labour should concentrate on women as a constituency. Here’s a post from February. The traditional Tory lead among women, a phenomenon as old as women’s suffrage in the UK, disappeared in the space of three weeks over Christmas 2010. Actually, it’s older – the…

Read More TYR Rewind: I’m going to leave you Mr Backlash