As Cobham is flogged off, with the announcement on the Friday before Christmas in the hope that nobody would notice, Lady Cobham is entirely right that this would not be allowed to happen in any other advanced country.
The case is further strengthened for a publicly owned monopoly supplier of arms to our own Armed Forces, with a total ban on arms sales abroad, and with heavy State investment in the diversification of the existing skills base in the arms industry. It must be said that that industry has vastly more political clout than its real economic importance would warrant, but even so.
Boris Johnson is in Estonia, where we station troops as a kind of tripwire because under no other circumstance would Britain fight a war to defend places in Eastern Europe of which many people here had never heard and which very few could identify on a map.
An attack on those countries would have to involve shooting at our own troops. So we put our troops there in order to be shot at. Following the recent family-reunion-from-hell of an excuse for a NATO seventieth birthday bash, the case for getting the hell out of NATO is now plain for all to see.
It is of course Donald Trump who calls NATO "obsolete". He has had some success in securing a prisoner exchange with Iran. Johnson could cut the ground from under Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips by offering to release Julian Assange, as demanded by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, if Iran also released Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, as demanded by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Beyond that, we have no quarrel with Iran, but plenty with Saudi Arabia, which we arm and for which we fight wars, yet which inspires, directs and funds terrorism right here on our own streets. Prince Turki al Faisal or anybody else who might wish to drag us into any other war for Saudi Arabia, much less a war with Iran, must be told in no uncertain terms to get lost.
And what of the United States Space Force? It is not necessarily unwelcome in principle. It will do important work in research and development, work such as probably only the United States could do, or at least coordinate.
But space is being militarised, and that by the country that does not recognise it as a common resource for all humanity. There needs to be a call for the Republican Party to return to President Eisenhower's proposal, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 22nd September 1960, for the principles of the Antarctic Treaty to be extended to Outer Space.
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Beyond that, we have no quarrel with Iran, but plenty with Saudi Arabia, which we arm and for which we fight wars, yet which inspires, directs and funds terrorism right here on our own streets. Prince Turki al Faisal or anybody else who might wish to drag us into any other war for Saudi Arabia, much less a war with Iran, must be told in no uncertain terms to get lost.
And what of the United States Space Force? It is not necessarily unwelcome in principle. It will do important work in research and development, work such as probably only the United States could do, or at least coordinate.
But space is being militarised, and that by the country that does not recognise it as a common resource for all humanity. There needs to be a call for the Republican Party to return to President Eisenhower's proposal, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 22nd September 1960, for the principles of the Antarctic Treaty to be extended to Outer Space.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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