Does he honestly think Beijing would allow China to remain dependent upon the US for crucial semiconductors, via Nvidia.

Also, for "cynicism" read "national security" and for "optimism", read "industry profits".

Bricking it about a new DeepSeek erupting from China doesn't detract from the fact that China will exploit available IP and resources regardless, and will deploy CCP subsidies to develop home brands. I think it's essential to remember who we're dealing with here, and recent precedents.

Even before we get into the obvious conflict of interest with regards to concerns about loss of profit through export controls of Blackwell semiconductors to China, his stance that this will cause Beijing to ramp up support to domestic producers is a moot point.

"It should come as no surprise, therefore, that with Russia fast running out of funds and staring into a deep domestic abyss, possibly of 1917 proportions, peace proposals to end the Ukrainian adventure have materialised in Washington DC."

"No one is happy, and many correctly perceive their current hard living is the direct result of the war in Ukraine and the world’s response to it."

Go and read up on personnel security for crying out loud.

Yet another example of people taking aim at something they know absolutely nothing about.

It's a protective security measure in most respects. It identifies the individual as someone who is actually meant to be on a premises, and transcends the civil service (though that's the community primarily targeted by the pejorative slur).

The "lanyard classes" moniker has always creased me. Such idiosyncratic reverse-snobbery.

I suppose one benefit for the incumbent government is, with Your Party and the Greens, no one can now accuse Labour of being far-left of anything.

Though it does sound awfully familiar.

I would go as far as to say it’s actually an important trait to being a good artist, to have a firm sense of who and what you don’t like and what you don’t want to do.

Even taking into account the revelation that Professor Murphy's research on repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang region of China had been muted, the failure to recognise basic legislative parameters of the NSA 2023, or indeed any form of complicity in HSA, is mind-boggling.