defence Articles

Amid the ongoing turmoil in British politics, there seems to be one constant: Labour’s inability to grasp conclusively a hold of the Trident question. Today members of parliament are being asked to vote on renewing our nuclear deterrent. Among the myriad arguments and...

In one of his last acts that went barely noticed a few days ago, the then prime minister David Cameron promised an early resolution to the question of a successor programme to Trident. You might find this odd, but I was very grateful to him for that. Here in Plymouth,...

In the 1980s unilateralism almost broke the Labour party. It must never do it again. From Neil Kinnock’s brave denunciation of one-sided disarmament to today’s party policy on retaining Trident, Labour has been on a journey to electoral acceptability. If we ever want...

Every so often we are abruptly reminded of how fragile the security that we take for granted, both economic and physical, really is. How our world can be shaken or undermined by events beyond our control. From the real and ever present threat of global terrorism, most...