Rishi Sunak may not hear your joke about being pint-sized but political obsessive on twitter who are four inches shorter than him will.

Suggesting they can eliminate murder in London is a good example of what I meant by growing up.

If the OBR did a forecast today the government would be right on the line of missing their fiscal rule, even with their nonsense spending figures for 2025-2030.

Reminder that Andrew Neil/@frasernelson's Spectator described Turning Point UK as a much-needed organisation that stood up for 'free markets and individual liberty'

(Douglas Murray, who else)

there are supply teachers that are tougher regulators than Ofcom

New post from Lawrence Freedman

'Escalation, Red Lines, Risk and the Russo-Ukraine War'

On how miscalculations about escalation have hampered NATO's approach to the conflict.

samf.substack.com/p/escalation-r…

Just astonishing garbage from the government. Claiming they're spending £75bn on defence, while also claiming it will only cost £20bn, by using different baselines.

Alice Through the Looking Glass maths.

Just astonishing garbage from the government. Claiming they're spending £75bn on defence, while also claiming it will only cost £20bn, by using different baselines.

Alice Through the Looking Glass maths.

It's only a '£75 billion increase' over 6 years if you assume that spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms for 6 years - i.e. only if the government was, until today, planning to breach its NATO commitments. This is such an unhelpful way to present the figures.

Apparently a 0.5% GDP uplift in defence spending is “fully funded” even though there is precisely zero increase in overall spending plans (which already didn’t remotely add up). This is deeply, and depressingly, unserious stuff.