Writes the UK's most popular politics Substack (https://nitter.cf/t.co/bcjXR0ncfL). New book - "Failed State" - now out https://nitter.cf/t.co/uPuWlb39R3.
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The budget wasn't very interesting, but the OBR forecast was. Full of data + clues on the difficult decisions to come next year.
I look at seven key things we learnt - from the cuts departments are facing to the rising costs of housing.
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After the inconclusive Israeli elections and before the US midterms, this post looks at the role the Iran War played in both elections. Israelis backed the war; Americans didn’t. Now Netanyahu wants another iteration. Trump dithers but watch Vance.(£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-poli…?
Of particular interest is Vance starting to freelance on Iran, which could be setting up a major battle for the Republican party after the midterms....
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Israeli and US elections have been affected by the Iran War in very different ways.
What does that mean for how things will develop once the midterms are over?
samf.substack.com/p/the-poli…
New post from @LawDavF
Israeli and US elections have been affected by the Iran War in very different ways.
What does that mean for how things will develop once the midterms are over?
samf.substack.com/p/the-poli…
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New post:
The budget wasn't very interesting, but the OBR forecast was. Full of data + clues on the difficult decisions to come next year.
I look at seven key things we learnt - from the cuts departments are facing to the rising costs of housing.
samf.substack.com/p/the-iceb…
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Hidden away in the OBR report is this concerning graph showing housing completions - looks like even their reduced forecast is optimistic.
Plus rents and mortgages are going to get more expensive due to interest rates + the extra property tax.
New post:
The budget wasn't very interesting, but the OBR forecast was. Full of data + clues on the difficult decisions to come next year.
I look at seven key things we learnt - from the cuts departments are facing to the rising costs of housing.
samf.substack.com/p/the-iceb…
Hidden away in the OBR report is this concerning graph showing housing completions - looks like even their reduced forecast is optimistic.
Plus rents and mortgages are going to get more expensive due to interest rates + the extra property tax.
New post:
The budget wasn't very interesting, but the OBR forecast was. Full of data + clues on the difficult decisions to come next year.
I look at seven key things we learnt - from the cuts departments are facing to the rising costs of housing.
samf.substack.com/p/the-iceb…
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Adm. Tony Radakin:
'I contrast it [normal UK defence procurement] with how we’ve been supporting Ukraine, where we used a different set of procurement rules – the Kindred rules – where we can literally go 10 times faster because we can take some financial and operational risk. The conversations we had during my time were: ‘Do you apply the Kindred rules to everything that we’re procuring, with exceptions for nuclear submarines and fast jets, and cut through the existing processes?’'
samf.substack.com/p/whitehal…
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The difference in the speed between our procurement process to buy weapons for Ukraine and our own weapons, is extraordinary...
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Today we have the second part of our very candid interview with Tony Radakin, who ran the UK armed forced 2021-2025.
He talks about how we got into a mess over defence spending, why John Healey resigned, and how to fix military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/whitehal…
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Honestly what is the Steel Man argument for a process that is so bad we have an entirely separate process for when we really, actually want to do something?
The difference in the speed between our procurement process to buy weapons for Ukraine and our own weapons, is extraordinary...
New post:
Today we have the second part of our very candid interview with Tony Radakin, who ran the UK armed forced 2021-2025.
He talks about how we got into a mess over defence spending, why John Healey resigned, and how to fix military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/whitehal…
New post:
Today we have the second part of our very candid interview with Tony Radakin, who ran the UK armed forced 2021-2025.
He talks about how we got into a mess over defence spending, why John Healey resigned, and how to fix military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/whitehal…
Part one is here:
nitter.cf/Samfr/status/211466044…
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We have a fascinating and candid interview with Tony Radakin who was head of the armed forces 2021-2025.
Covers decisions on Ukraine, the lessons from the UK, the threat from Russia, defence spending and the disaster of military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/when-rus…
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So many interesting nuggets like this on the weeks before Russia's invasion when the UK was trying to assess their plans to defend themselves.
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We have a fascinating and candid interview with Tony Radakin who was head of the armed forces 2021-2025.
Covers decisions on Ukraine, the lessons from the UK, the threat from Russia, defence spending and the disaster of military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/when-rus…
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Stimulating read.
New post:
We have a fascinating and candid interview with Tony Radakin who was head of the armed forces 2021-2025.
Covers decisions on Ukraine, the lessons from the UK, the threat from Russia, defence spending and the disaster of military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/when-rus…
So many interesting nuggets like this on the weeks before Russia's invasion when the UK was trying to assess their plans to defend themselves.
New post:
We have a fascinating and candid interview with Tony Radakin who was head of the armed forces 2021-2025.
Covers decisions on Ukraine, the lessons from the UK, the threat from Russia, defence spending and the disaster of military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/when-rus…
New post:
We have a fascinating and candid interview with Tony Radakin who was head of the armed forces 2021-2025.
Covers decisions on Ukraine, the lessons from the UK, the threat from Russia, defence spending and the disaster of military procurement.
samf.substack.com/p/when-rus…
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And @LawDavF wrote about Trump's latest deeply unhelpful intervention in Ukraine, what damage it has done, and the role the Europeans should be playing.
samf.substack.com/p/ukraine-…
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This week on the substack...
I wrote about the European radical right in power, and what that tells us about how a Marine Le Pen presidency would play out.
samf.substack.com/p/the-stra…