BRITAIN’S ARMED forces have much to be proud of. The Royal Navy is engaged in some of the most intense naval skirmishing since the Falklands war, knocking Houthi missiles out of the sky above the Red Sea. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is still flying over Iraq and Syria to keep Islamic ...
What’s more, Denmark’s stock market has been on fire the past 20 years whereas the UK’s has been moribund. Consequently Britain has slipped into the bottom half of the table, after decades as one of the leading lights. And while it’s true that losing a World War is bad news, Ja...
In the interest of working together to detect and stop such threats, the two nations signed an agreement to form NORAD on May 12, 1958 [source: National Defence of Canada]. It was originally known as North American Air Defense Command, but "Air" was changed to "Aerospace" to reflect the...
At the same time, no matter how much Western leaders may dislike the term, “moral equivalence” between Russian invasion and past U.S. interventions is being drawn. To cite Amin Saikal, an Afghan-Australian scholar and a leading authority on Middle East: in invading Ukraine, “President Vlad...
Way back in 1909, Alliot Verdon Roe‘s Roe 1 Triplane, crafted from (can you believe) wood and paper, flew into the world record books as Britain’s first-ever homemade aircraft. Roe was born near Salford native, in Patricroft, in 1877 He set up the A V Roe and Company (AVRO), ...
We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings. — George Galloway 48 ...
What we see in the West is that in most places political leaders delegate assessment of Russia’s military plans to their defence ministers, military strategists, generals and intelligence officers. That’s what Estonia does. That’s what Germany does. That’s what Britain does. That’s why...
They spent more than $20 billion on the trades last week, according to Cboe Global Markets data, based on what is known as options premium. The artificial-intelligence mania has also a driven a frenzy in trades tied to Super Micro Computer, a much smaller company. Traders spent more money...
Conrad Black: How Boris Johnson – and Britain – came to this place Conrad Black: The President of the United States called. I was being pardoned, at last In general, I have always been an advocate of leaving as much as can be done without unacceptable humanitarian shortfalls on the pr...