Blog posts tagged "Defence"

October 19, 2010 8:10 am 25 Comments

Strange - in former times, budgetary announcements and the rest used to have to be kept secret until they were announced on the floor of the House of Commons. But today vast amounts of the Strategic Defence and the Public Spending Reviews are already out in the public domain.

February 17, 2009 5:00 pm No Comments

I’m taken by Stuart Bell’s response, and indeed the others’, to my submarines piece from yesterday, including the idea the two captains rose through their turrets to exchange insurance details. Stuart closes the torpedo compartment on me – the one marked with a “Ban the Bomb” label. But in their haste to brush over this [...]

February 16, 2009 5:59 pm No Comments

We thought the collision of two satellites in outer space last week unlikely enough. Now we have the absurd spectacle of two submarines, one British, one French, so completely in their “Secret Squirreledness” that they’ve actually collided with each other. So secret, indeed, was the collision that we’ve only heard about it nearly two weeks [...]