Moscow needs to keep throwing large numbers of relatively under-equipped men under artillery cover at Ukrainian defences. A new source of terrorism will drain a proportion of those resources, making things more difficult.
All of the pieces of legislation announced by His Majesty today, including the Renters (Reform) and Victims and Prisoners Bills.
Politicians urge zero tolerance – but there’s a gap between law and enforcement. If the Met can arrest 155 anti-lockdown protestors, why can’t it do the same to pro-Hamas ringleaders?
Starmer is unlikely to resist, and even were he minded to try, the Casey Review and his own record in Northern Ireland would make it impossible.
Outsourcing the delicate work of threat detection to venues will do little good, whilst heaping fresh pressure on a struggling sector.
Break off its national functions and focus it exclusively on giving London the normal policing it deserves.
Truss must ensure Britain remains a global leader in development, as well as in defence and diplomacy.
It is time to consider some sort of international stabilisation and counter-terrorist organisation.
We controlled Covid in our prisons, kept the courts running throughout lockdown, and were the first in the western world to resume jury trials.
Will they fight any following cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and ask it to overturn Kerr’s decision?
Wallace has done well to win an exceptional defence settlement, but it may not be enough to fund all the Integrated Review’s ambitions.
Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.
Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.
Constant criticism has distracted from the strategy’s essential focus: stopping people from becoming supporters of terrorism or terrorists themselves.