Defence of the Realm

That diminishing band of us who celebrate having memories of slightly greater capacity than the proverbial goldfish in a bowl will recall w...

Much weeping and gnashing of teeth attends the premature retirement of the Harrier force. Those of us with longer memories, though, will ...

What is incredible is how blatant it all is, and how easily they lie through their teeth as they "insist" that this will not giv...

In The Daily Telegraph we now read that French Rafales may be using the Royal Navy carriers. You did, of course, read it here first and t...

The Daily Telegraph print edition runs a front-page story headed, "Armed Forces will have to seek French help to fight a war". T...

Well, not only is HMS Ark Royal to be scrapped but the Fleet Air Arm as well . In the meantime, the BBC has learned that "at least on...

So it came to pass that the North went south to attend the great debate. There was a smaller than usual attendance for a Spectator debate, w...

I first wrote about it on 28 July 2004 , marking it down as "another blunder of Eurofighter proportions". This is the £16 billio...

The BBC is trilling its little head off about the announcement that the decision to award the contract for the LPPV has gone to Force Prote...

In the aftermath of the British withdrawal from Sangin, we have considerable media comment, and a huge contrast of styles. Up front is the ...

The Taliban have taken out a Jackal, killing two soldiers. Far from being critical, however, The Sun acts as a free propaganda sheet for t...

Most of the papers carry the " news " today, that British forces have scored yet another great victory in the global war on terr...

The Heritage Industry is in full spate today, celebrating "Battle of Britain day", and in particular the 70th anniversary of the ...

With the new parliament now in place, I am no longer earning most of my living as a parliamentary researcher and must find new sources of i...

Another two Brits have been killed in Helmand. One was a Royal Marine and the other was a trooper from the Royal Dragoon Guards. The Marine...

"Renegade Afghan soldier kills three British troops." That's the headline in The Guardian with similar replicated elsewhere a...

"We have this old adage," says Captain Anthony Harris of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (pictured): "70% skills and drills, ...

The British withdrawal from Sangin was formally announced yesterday by defence secretary Liam Fox to parliament. The date set for their de...

A bomb disposal expert was killed in a gunfight with insurgents yesterday, The Guardian tells us, using the MoD as it source. The solider f...

If one had to rank British media coverage of the Afghan conflict, my winner would almost certainly be The Independent - not that I agree wi...