The Cost of War is not paid by the Government
Do civil servants calculate the cost of looking after veterans when they give their “estimates” of the costs of doing things? The official line is that British veterans are looked after by the NHS....
Author: Hugh McManners
Surveillance Technology ‘versus” Terrorists Experiment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VwvUJhvUqE Colgate University begins work on the relative effectiveness of aerial drone surveillance equipment, against unskilled “terrorists” equipped only with mobile phones. Their ‘experiment’ used students who’d been given several weeks to work out how to...
Advice to our Enemies: Shoot First, then take us to Court.
Leigh Day and Co have made a lot of money out of suing British soldiers on behalf of Iraqis. As a result, the British Army risks becoming even more risk averse; and why should...
Scottish Independence is Like Riding a Motorcycle
Do you remember back to when you wanted to ride a motorcycle, but your parents wouldn’t let you because they thought it was too dangerous? You watched every passing motorcycle with envy, imagining how...
USA Fighting the Wrong Wars
Using military force requires considerable thought beforehand. Planning for afterwards doesn’t seem to be part of the USA’s war-fighting approach. The Americans invaded Iraq with no plan for rebuilding the country, and so created what seems...
Gaza: Don’t Take Sides! – especially Liberals.
One of many sad things about the current Gaza disaster, is how little thinking is taking place. Especially as some “liberals’ seem now to be siding with Hamas – a brutal terrorist group. Polarisation is as...
Remove Dictators to Create Monsters
Once the suppressive force of a regime is removed, countries like Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan have no mechanisms to stop extremists filling the vacuum. There are worse things than dictators. The CIA’s funding of...
Russians are Not Fools!
TIME and other US news outlets are trying to present Russian people as believing all the various internet nonsense stories that incidents like the Malaysian Airlines tragedy invariably create. That MH17 was loaded with dead...
ISIS Extremism is a Good Thing
The big danger with ISIS is if ordinary people take them seriously. It’s clear that the radicalisation of their followers is crude and extreme; even Osama Bin Laden urged them to temper their ruthlessness....
The Threat of Kittens
TS Elliot measured his life in coffee spoons. It seems these days we express ours in terms of kittens. This use of irrelevance to give meaning to life reminds me of a woman who...
