Once the UK Govt drank the elixir of drones - a way to do without those expensive Type 26 warships, their seemingly too-hard-to-recruit people and costly weapons - and the Ukrainians 'beat a navy without a navy', it seized upon the 'hybrid navy' as the latest 'silver bullet' to avoid boosting defence properly. Yes, it is essential to have autonomous systems, but to reinforce the Royal Navy, not as a 'hybrid' means to dodge creating a proper fighting fleet. The Black Sea is not the Atlantic, a vast, mean treacherous ocean, and warships still matter. The Northern Fleet is the apex of Russian naval power, not a confined lesser force like the Black Sea Fleet. It is a tough mother that will eat you alive if it can. Norway is to get five T26s in some kind of joint operational arrangement with UK, but what if its govt decides one day that it does not agree with our defence and foreign policy? No can play UK...you are on your own! UK govts must stop contracting out sovereign defence needs. Six not eight RN T26s mean only two at sea at any one time and not until mid to late 2030s, if we are lucky. In war six is too few to sustain an effective presence in the Atlantic or absorb losses. Unless the UK thinks it can prevail with a tiny fleet too precious to deploy? But, there are the five cheaper Type 31s? Not an ASW ship, no matter its virtues. Australia is buildingng 6 x T26s - plus will have 11 Mogami frigates - and Canada is building 15 x T26s. More than the UK, the nation that created the alleged world's supposed greatest ASW ship, the as yet not in service T26. Until the UK Govt places an order for more T26s to replace those going to Norway then it is again failing on defence. The UK should actually build at least 12 T26s for the RN. And not just as a means to try and buy votes in Scotland with job creation, but because it is what the UK needs to be secure...and its navy needs a heck of a lot of other stuff too. Pronto. Stop being so timid and pathetic on defence @GOVUK

I want to know exactly why Axel Rudakubana’s family came to the UK - on what visa, for what reason. From the BBC report today… 'There was stark criticism particularly for his father Alphonse Rudakubana, who Sir Adrian said had deliberately withheld information about his son amassing a stash of deadly weapons including the biological toxin ricin. Sir Adrian said if the parents had reported their true level of knowledge to the authorities before the attack, the killer would "undoubtedly have been taken into care or held in custody".' I have put official questions to the Home Office on the role his parents played, and why they were in our country to begin with. It is my view that the police should urgently investigate both the mother and the father of that monster, prosecuting/deporting where possible.

Dragonfire cannot come soon enough, we need to put a fire of cash underneath the project team and get it motoring thinkdefence.co.uk/docs/drag…

Keir Starmer commits to deploying British boots on the ground in Ukraine with a military he doesn’t really have because he’s starving it of funds. Defence spending in 2024/25 was £60.2billion In real terms (2024/25 prices) it will be £62billion this year. In 2026/27 it will be £63.5billion. At a time of grave geopolitical threats these rises are peanuts — far, far less than the massive rises in welfare spending. Even our appeasement leaders in the 1930s increased defence spending by far more in the face of a rising Nazi threat. The projected increases could not sustain a major UK deployment in Ukraine. I suspect Starmer has agreed only because he thinks the Russians would never accept it and so there will be no peace deal. It is a purely performative gesture. John Healey, the defence secretary, is a patriot who believes in the defence of the nation. He needs to make his voice heard. The failure to spend more on our security — and that of our allies — is becoming a national scandal.

We have a Labour government trying to tax us into oblivion while a Labour Minister openly dodges tax We have a Labour government going against the people by re-opening asylum hotels while the families of senior Labour advisors happen to rake in millions from the hotels We have a Labour government accusing us of “misinformation” while *literally* misinforming us by importing Afghans & gagging media We had a Labour Minister promoting a “Renters’ Rights Bill” while personally re-letting her own properties at higher rents immediately after evicting tenants And we’ve had Labour Ministers banging on and on about protecting women while blocking a rape gang inquiry and putting unvetted sexual offenders next to families & schools Is there any other blatant Labour hypocrisy we need to know about? Have you ever seen a government so completely and utterly out-of-touch with the British people’s sense of fairness?

Hey @10DowningStreet this man was deputy leader of both ISIS AND Al Qaeda! How can you impose him on the @RoyalFamily ? And how is this not a criminal offence? @metpoliceuk @MailOnline @TheTelegraph__

Tyranny

I can't believe what I've just watched. Rachel Reeves is inviting us to believe that she had absolutely no option but to accept freebie concert tickets. No apology No accountability Just that she now 'understands how it looks' She's an entitled, arrogant liar What a car crash

#bbclaurak for once pleased to see @KemiBadenoch and @10DowningStreet both speaking like true politicians and not points scoring. Starmers been impressive this week but still don’t get the Chargos position

This is unsustainable. Our public services can’t even cope with the current numbers.

There are specific cases where the death penalty is warranted, and no one will convince me otherwise. The horrific abuse and murder of 10 year old Sara Sharif is one of them. I hope these bastards rot in hell

Low bar tbh

The Labour government decided not to invite Elon Musk to the UK investment summit. The guy who is catching reusable rockets like the Karate Kid catches a fly in chopsticks. The guy who has launched 2/3rds of the satellites in orbit and who's brought fast internet to every corner of the earth as a side project. The guy who's developing electric cars and robots. The guy who's a cofounder of the leading AI companies. The richest man in the world, and potentially the biggest investor into the UK. Why can't he come? He said nasty things they don't like to hear. He was public about his criticism for locking people up for dumb stuff the said online. He's a champion for a more radical form of free speech and meritocracy than they are. He's an advocate for judging people by their actions rather their wrong-think or adherence to the loony tunes ideology of the day. This is typical of politicians. You get access if you are nice to us, you loose privileges if you are critical. It's how they pick their cabinets and doll out their top jobs. If the UK economy really came first they would park their grievances and welcome Musk with open arms. They'd find out how the UK can be a leader in space, automation, AI and robotics. They'd ask him for his opinions on how to curb online disinformation or creating more online cohesion. Alas, socialists hate entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs show that a lot gets done without the state, meritocracy beats victimhood and truly smart people don't end up in politics.

And this is MAKING HISTORY. It worked at the first test!

One of the most pervasive and insane lies of the past few decades is that the American Indians were living in peace and harmony until those nasty Europeans showed up and killed them while “stealing” their land It’s nearly totally false, and is rooted in Cultural Marxism 🧵👇

100% want less immigration and more integration to British values, 100% don’t want to see mosques attacked that’s disgusting. Also the two tier policing if true (who knows what to believe on X) is wrong, violence thugs and racism from all perspectives should be punished

New UK Police siren, bloody brilliant 😂😂😂

#OpeningCeremony this has to be worst thing I’ve ever watched! It’s hilarious

I think about this G.K. Chesterton passage a lot.