All this stuff with the Islamic State crew is certainly making The Powers That Be (TPTB) hot under the collar, isn’t it? The slaughter of James Foley was barbaric. Generally speaking war is barbaric, even when it’s fought within “rules”, so to speak. However, I’m going to need some convincing that we – the UK, […]
The Prime Minister was talking today at Prime Minster’s Questions in the House of Commons. According to Sky News and other mainstream media sources, the Prime Minister reckons that unless we go and do something in Iraq (quite what we should do is not clear), then “ISIS (which stands for ‘Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’) […]
A Remarkable Political Result It’s perhaps hard to overstate the significance of the recent elections in England and Wales, and in the European Union (EU) of which of course the UK is a member. For the first time in British history a political party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), with no Members of Parliament, […]
This is a Guest Post from Wensley Dale I have sometimes read your blog, Moraymint, and I share some of your concerns about the future. There are so many big changes taking place at the moment many of which both interact and have their own momentum. I suppose, however, that is generally the case but […]
I’m preparing an ‘upside’ post right now to balance all of the ‘downside’ stuff that I’ve published here on this blog over the past year or two. I recognise the need to shine some light on how we’re supposed to respond to what I argue is a steam train coming down the tracks towards us, […]
Introduction Despite the worst fears of at least one of my daughters, I am in fact a happy chappy. You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you read most of the posts on this blog, or my contributions to the comments pages of the Daily Telegraph or, indeed, many of the posts on my […]
Sign of the times as my Regiment lays up the Standards of 5 of its squadrons (3 having been disbanded), one of which – 48 Squadron RAF Regiment – I commanded from 1992 – 1994 … there are days when I wonder about British government spending priorities as I watch our political class divert £400 […]
It’s a real conundrum living as we do in an age of omnipresent information (in this case an audio-video record of an event that in earlier times would never, ever have been known to anyone other than those directly involved) whilst warfighting remains the same as it has been for a thousand years: hell on […]
My old mucker O’Reilly of the Hip Flask (see my earlier ‘Declaration of Arbroath’ post) contacted me by email this evening; he and I served in the same Regiment, many moons ago. O’Reilly brought to my attention a post on another blog, that of ‘Wings Over Scotland’ which is hosted by the Reverend Stuart Campbell. […]
If you’re anything like me – which you’re probably not, but hey – you wonder from time to time where all the seemingly interminable nonsense in Europe is most likely to end up. Do you ever wonder that? I mean, barely a day goes by when we don’t hear, read or watch some report or […]
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