A National Express driver actually did this on my coach last year. It’s spreading

I’ve actually felt for a while that, whilst I still think he’s wrong, the framing of his anti-NATO position as “the US isn’t trustworthy anymore, we need independent security structures” is about the best one he could have chosen in the current climate to make ground with the more normie public

IMO the crux of what he’s proposing only really works in a fully Bennite closed economy, since the value of the pound is a real constraint on our ability to borrow as we please and people won’t be happy if we suddenly can’t import anything

I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.

I have a semi-serious belief that a large chunk of the men posting news articles about this topic constantly are indulging in some kind of fetish

Didn’t it transpire (through declassified FBI docs a few years ago) that the Soviet Union were privately shitting themselves at first and believed it was part of an attempted far-right coup with the aim of nuking Moscow (whilst considering LBJ a suspect)

I’ll believe it when I see it (as someone who owns a car I still support ending the freeze)

I even think the UK could play a greater role in helping Ireland develop its own capabilities, providing the necessary training etc., though plainly being more explicit about our defence partnership could be politically tricky

Ultimately, everyone on both sides of the Irish Sea should be clear-eyed about the actual security risks Ireland faces in today’s world, and whether Ireland being in NATO would necessarily mitigate them rather than just fixing the low-hanging fruit first

Think I read somewhere that Ireland doesn’t even have radar for observing its undersea cables, which is plainly a more pressing security issue than missile defence for Dublin

And former Guido alumni