Edward Stringer🇺🇦
@edwardstrngr
Retired RAF Air Marshal | Trustee of Imperial War Museum | Senior Fellow of Policy Exchange
Is 'The West' at war with Russia? Ask two questions: Has The West firmly stated that it is politically opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and wishes to see it fail? Is it in the interest of future West European security to see Russia be defeated in Ukraine? 1/11
This is, at least, a strong possibility. And we are doing what exactly…?
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces commander Madyar: At NATO, they asked my opinion on their base. I said 4 Ukrainian FPV teams could turn it into Pearl Harbor in 15 mins without coming within 10 km. Cheap, accessible tech in terrorist hands could upend any country. 1/
It’s about safety, as long as you use that word as Robespierre did…
The UK’s Online Safety Act and NIIIT – Safety or State Surveillance? The OSA and Big Brother Fears 1/25 The Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) aims to make the UK “the safest place online,” but the announcement in the @Telegraph tonight of the of launch of the National Internet…
The integration of cycling into London's public realm has been a disaster. Segregated cycle lanes are laudable but they should have stayed on the carriageway & never intruded on pavements. Instead of balancing all users' needs, pedestrian safety has been sacrificed for cyclists'.
This shows the chaotic & dangerous situation facing bus users at Westminster floating bus stop. The buses routinely drops off into the cycle lane. A rental e-bike rider collides into a child & another one crashes into the back of a cyclist. @MayorofLondon this is not safe at all.
And it’s not just the submarine fleet. Worth auditing how many formations, across the military, have all the capabilities their doctrine requires. And that is before we ask if that which we do have is effectively hollow. (My first job in MOD, 2003, was conducting such audits.)
The status of the RN SSN fleet should be a national scandal but it isn't... Billion pounds worth of assets stuck alongside delivering no output for the defence of the UK, but few people seem to care and no one is accountable. For the record none have been to sea for over 2 years.
So no one is held accountable, just the standard “lessons have been learned” and the employment of yet another “senior civil servant” CIO whilst the departmental CIO and CISO don’t even get a mild reprimand. And what of the scape goat RM Officer? No reforms are required, the…
How many other people out there have never felt the need to use Deliveroo or similar?
Food delivery will collapse within weeks if you implement this.
What a photo too!
In 1996, a British Airways Concorde flew from New York to London in a record 2 hours and 52 minutes. That’s more than twice the speed of sound (Mach 2.04).
Your reminder that all ballistic missiles travel at hypersonic speeds.
BREAKING: 🇹🇷 Türkiye officially unveils a hypersonic ballistic missile called Tayfun Block-4 today.
“Roughly half of its staff work in research and development, spending on which grew by 26% last year, to $3.4bn—more than the company generated in net profit.” Now that’s a stat! economist.com/business/2025/…
Government can hire its own high priced lawyers, just needs the will to do so
True - which prompts some questions….
Government can hire its own high priced lawyers, just needs the will to do so
Such a good point about “Government” not having the necessary “stones”. The underlying truth is that ‘Government’ is totally incapable of taking on the high-priced lawyers of the private sector and folds immediately.
Feargal Sharkey 1: Ed Balls 0 These water companies are essentially bust as a result of shareholder, board and management behaviour. The equity is worthless, and the debt is worth pennies in the pound. A government with any stones should drive a very hard bargain here.
The Royal Navy has always done mass. A Trident D5 missile - which can be launched as a salvo - weighs about the same as a Challenger tank.
"The total weight of firepower Victory unleashed at Trafalgar exceeded the entire artillery strength available to Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815." -O. Goossens, The Birth of a Legend: The Construction of HMS Victory heart-of-oak.org/2025/04/20/the…
Feargal Sharkey 1: Ed Balls 0 These water companies are essentially bust as a result of shareholder, board and management behaviour. The equity is worthless, and the debt is worth pennies in the pound. A government with any stones should drive a very hard bargain here.
Here is Feargal Sharkey explaining that the £100bn figure that is quoted by the government for the cost to renationalise the water industry comes from a report funded by the water companies themselves.
An example I've heard cited several times recently is that of nursery rhymes, which were reliably, steadily and pretty universally passed from generation to generation from the Victorian period through to at least the 1990s, but which are apparently suddenly not passing down.
Hard to disagree with this as a born on 1965 subject.
The sad thing is that every schoolboy in the 60s would know. I was fortunate enough to inherit my father’s collection of Ladybird Books & Our Island Story. Decades of multicultural propaganda have put that aside and made British children more knowledgeable about US civil rights.
Take the macro view👇
Perspective. This is the map from the end of Ukraine's counteroffensive at the end of 2022, vs now in July 2025. The dark red line is now, the lighter one was then. Look at the macro picture. We often have people in our replies going "You're reporting Ukraine losing village…
Utterly. Brilliant. Boats. The Trafalgar class of hunter-killer submarines passed into history with the decommissioning of HMS Triumph in @HMNBDevonport, the last of 7 T boats which have patrolled beneath the waves for more than four decades. 🔗royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/july…