The Falklands are under threat again and we can't rely on America to save usI'll be honest. When I first started researching hypersonic missiles and the Falkland Islands, it felt like a subject more suited to a defence think-tank than a Lib Dem blog. But the events of the past 48 hours have changed my mind and I think they should change yours too. Argentine President Javier Milei has declared that he is doing "everything humanly possible" to return the Falklands to Argentine hands. That alone would be manageable. What is far more alarming is the backdrop: a leaked Pentagon memo has proposed withdrawing American diplomatic support for British sovereignty over the islands as ... (more) |
Opinion polling in wartimeThe Gallup team polling Britons during the Second World War on their views: [IMG: Gallup pollsters in wartime] A pollster next to a destroyed building. Taken from Behind the Gallup Poll by Henry Durant, 1951 (intermittently available from second-hand booksellers). (more) |
Deep cuts in services needed to deliver Refom and Tory tax cutsWith Reform still challenging Plaid Cymru for first place in next month's Senedd elections it is only right that there should be greater scrutiny of their policy proposals. Nation Cymru reports that an analysis of party manifestos undertaken by Cardiff University academics has found that tax cuts proposed by Reform UK and the Welsh Conservatives would require deep cuts in public services and would disproportionately benefit better off earners. The news site says that the report by the university's Wales Governance Centre states that the Welsh Conservatives propose lowering the basic rate [of income tax] by 1p in the pound, ... (more) |