Or Bobby Sands St next to the British Embassy in Tehran

Should never have been repealed. Another brilliant idea from Eric Pickles

Maybe the aid sector would have a little more money if people like David Miliband weren't paid $1.2 million a year.

So what's the recommendation? Raise taxes, or keep defence spending at an absurdly low level even though Putin and our adversaries are splurging like its out of fashion?

Quite!

Well I sort of take your point but your fact is wrong. The first Spitfire flew in March 1936, while the Battle of Cable Street wasn't until October. But the Spit didn't enter service with the RAF until August 1938..

But the real Mosley never was in charge. And when the chips were down in 1940, he was promptly detained under Defence Regulation 18B. But if in 1934, everyone had said, "Oh no let's not build Spitfires, or Cromwell tanks, because... Mosley," well maybe he would never have been detained..

If I was a Pole or a Lithuanian, where they are spending tons more proportionately than us or the French & Germans, and have even curbed welfare spending to do so, I would greet that concern with a massive eye-roll given where we are, I'm afraid.