Edward Stringer🇺🇦
@edwardstrngr
Retired RAF Air Marshal | Trustee of Imperial War Museum | Senior Fellow of Policy Exchange
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Is 'The West' at war with Russia? Ask two questions: Has The West firmly stated that it is politically opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and wishes to see it fail? Is it in the interest of future West European security to see Russia be defeated in Ukraine? 1/11
We all know this to be true. A consequence of moving from a high-trust society where the reliable majority had a shared vested interest in looking after each others’ offspring.
This was perennial London experience until 1960s when all of city could be a playground & a place to move about. It’s a pattern researchers have discovered more broadly: the ‘range’ of children’s unaccompanied right to roam has collapsed over 3 generations eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/9458…
Whatever the causes, the relative stagnation of all of us in geographic Europe is worrying.
The European and British economic model summed up: - deindustrialisation caused by suicidal energy and trade policies - productive capacity surrendered to geopolitical rivals and threats - moan about the predictable consequences, while sanctimoniously refusing to change
As many of us have been arguing for years - the Chinese threat has been insidious and played on our polity and socio-economy via reflexive control of our base instincts.
With @MahmutRahima I have reported @sheffhallamuni to the police to investigate possible breaches of the National Security Act 2023. As reported by @Geri_E_L_Scott this has already been passed to Counter Terror Police (responsible for NSA). 👇 thetimes.com/uk/education/a…
This is a huge part of our current woes as the public sector continues to expand relative to the private sector that is finding productivity increases.
Annualised 2024 estimate of total public service productivity was 3.0% lower than the 2019 level, up from the previous estimate of 4.2% below. Revisions are mostly because of updated National Accounts data this quarter. Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/econom…
It is absurd that this is a counter-culture view in Westminster: Phone thefts are bad Shoplifting is bad Police doing nothing on thefts is bad Normal people do not want to have their phones and bikes stolen or see their local stores locked up under security glass.
Despite what politicians would have us believe, British energy policy is not cheap, not home-grown and not secure. Read my latest analysis here: bit.ly/4hByPrA Sign up to my mailing list here: bit.ly/3IxFYY5. #sustainableeconomy
I agree with this by @adwooldridge and it is worth a read. Strong on party politics, it needs, I’d argue, a little more on the nature of the technocratic elite: the Civil Service as an expansive political force, the power of the quango, and a more activist judiciary.
The Blairite modernization of British politics has left the technocratic elite even more disconnected from the tradition-loving British people. And the communalization of British politics is quickly replacing consensus-making with conflict. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
'..."three officers of the National Security Service" visited Sheffield Hallam's office in China. A local staff member was "questioned for two hours regarding the HKC research and future publications. "The tone was threatening and message to cease the research activity was made…
Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
The notion that this is “value engineered” is completely incorrect . Network rail is a pricy builder, both at a total cost and per sqft basis. Look at the interior of the new £175m Beaulieu Park station. It doesn’t appear fancy, but a contractor’s eye will see the angled &…
This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....
Excellent piece by Navy Lookout bringing to life the tightness of the financial bind the MoD is in, through a detailed look at navy surface ships. How we are supposed to believe that we can believe in a flotilla of 12 SSNs when the fleet as a whole is in such a parlours state is…
Latest analysis article: The Royal Navy’s frigate gap – how deep and how long will it last? navylookout.com/the-royal-navy…
Good to hear @Dieter_Helm talking complete sense on @BBCr4today just now on energy policy. A pity his logic is undervalued vice ideology currently.
The amazing thing about the last few days is that people are not saying openly enough what has happened. The Chinese stared the US down and the US blinked. It could represent the end of an era and former US allies in Asia-Pacific had better watch out.
Update from the Killing Fields of Sudan: Maternity hospital massacre leaves 460 dead as patients and staff are butchered; 2,000 civilians were executed in two days. UN resolutions: zero. Protesters in London: couple of dozen. Coverage of Sudan carnage in media: minimal.
The ignored and brutal civil war in Sudan, which has already claimed 150,00 lives and displaced millions, has now taken an even more terrible turn in El Fashir, under siege and suffering famine. RSF rebels have captured the city, triggering the panicked flight of its remaining…
Putin's biggest fear has been exposed. As a Russian dissident who spent 10 years in his prisons, I can tell you it's not sanctions or missiles. It's the rising legitimacy of the Russian opposition. 🧵 And that legitimacy just got a major boost. [1/12]
![khodorkovsky_en's tweet image. Putin's biggest fear has been exposed.
As a Russian dissident who spent 10 years in his prisons, I can tell you it's not sanctions or missiles. It's the rising legitimacy of the Russian opposition.
🧵 And that legitimacy just got a major boost.
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So a new MoD Quad: ✅ A new Permanent Secretary from outside defence ✅ A new National Armaments Director with no prior job closely associated with defence ✅ A Chief of Defence Nuclear also from outside defence and a banker ✅ And a CDS who is an engineer Very different mix…
"The Cabinet Secretary, with the approval of the Prime Minister, has appointed Jeremy Pocklington as the new Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence. Jeremy is currently Permanent Secretary at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero" gov.uk/government/new…
An odd reading. Making sanction threats that are weak and then saying you will not enforce them on the Chinese, which Trump did yesterday, is much worse than making no sanction threats at all. The Chinese now know that Trump will not interfere in their purchases of Russian oil,…
Soft oil prices are a good thing. They may represent a market judgment that Russian oil won’t be taken off the market but more likely suggest markets believe US & Saudi production can make up for Russian oil coming off. & Russian oil will face more discounts. @ACGeoEcon 1/3
Quite!
If her anxiety doesn't stop her speaking on live TV, she is well enough to get a job.
A new UCL study on wind power relies on faulty economics. @DavidRoseUK 👇 buff.ly/6nLF3JB
The silence is deafening. Civilian men, women, and children are being slaughtered in Sudan. Estimates of over 150,000 killed & 14 million displaced since April 2023. Considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. No mass protests. No daily political statements/demands. No…
🔴 The hot sand around the Sudanese city of El Fasher is stained red with the blood of more than 2,000 massacred civilians See how journalists used satellite imagery to reconstruct the scale of violence ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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