Blog posts tagged "Ministry of Defence"

February 8, 2011 12:30 pm 24 Comments

It's tricky finding any detail but when you do it's a scandal worthy of Private Eye - the suspension of the search and rescue service sell-off, writes Jon Snow.

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.

March 27, 2009 11:28 am No Comments

Hard on the heels of spending a staggering £422m on eight Chinooks that have still never flown, the first-class brains in our MoD have come up with another ruse: a “super hangar” built at a cost of £113m in Wales to provide engineering services for the RAF. Splendid!