Defence

The International Ombudsman Institute was taken in by one of its own members. An IOI condemnation of the conduct of Lyudmyla Denisova, who admitted to fabricating evidence, is a year overdue.

Russians are not ignorant of the situation in Ukraine, and consider the actions of their authorities to be fair and justified.

All of the air samplers deployed by Britain's nuclear weapons research body, the AWE, have detected significantly increased levels of uranium since the Ukraine war began.

How has the Constitution been so disregarded that Tobias Ellwood can be part of the outfit that spies on his own constituents?

As the UK Government has committed to reducing emissions by "at least two-thirds by 2035", it must have some kind of energy transition magic in mind.

LONG READ: As long as states like Ukraine go on trying to copy the nineteenth-century western European unitary model of the nation state, there will only be endless conflict.

With all the bases covered through ‘inter-agency coordination’, was true, open and free debate killed at the starting block of the whole Covid situation in New Zealand? Observation and lived experience would suggest that is the case.

Who benefits from Finland and Sweden, having openly cast their neutrality overboard and unmasking themselves as anti-Russian, now being kept outside NATO?

The raising or keeping a standing army within the Kingdom in time of Peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law.

The Prime Minister calls Russia a "rogue state" and the Foreign Secretary accuses the Russian government of committing "atrocities”; yet that is no impediment to the UK Government working closely with Rosatom's commercial partners.

Ukraine is paying the price for the blind and idiotic smugness of our Western journalists and politicians.

A "charitable" campaign for lethal equipment suggests that the notion of humanitarian aid really can be reframed, in order that the crucial elements of impartiality and neutrality are stripped away.

Russia is undoubtedly facing a significant Nazi threat in Ukraine. It is not unreasonable for Russia to attempt to nullify that threat before history repeats itself. There is nothing “good” about Russia’s actions, but they are understandable.

Why would women and homosexuals be clearly identified by Soviet defector Yuriy Bezmenov (a.k.a. Tomas Schuman), using his own knowledge of KGB strategy, as a key weapon in "penetrating and demoralising the western intelligence community, police and ...

David Ellis speaks to Ann Widdecombe, former Brexit Party MEP and former Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, and Rusty Firmin, former 22 SAS; the "man with no gloves" of Iranian Embassy seige-breaking team.

David Ellis speaks to a former warrant officer and veterans' campaigner Trevor Coult, MC.

Join David Ellis for the first of a new series of investigative reports. This week, David discusses 'Lawfare': the rules of engagement which British armed forces are required to operate under, and speaks to Dennis Hutchings, a British army veteran ...

Some telling correspondence from the permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.

In a written question HL 456 Lord James of Blackheath sought answers from the Ministry of Defence concerning EU Defence Policy.

Without any fanfare, or public statements, parliamentarians are starting to ask questions about European Defence Union and what it means for British self-determination and national sovereignty. In this article we decode the answers.

The Anonymous leak concerning the Integrity Initiative and subsequent investigations (not least by The UK Column) has led to parliamentary questions being tabled concerning the funding of this programme. Now a further leak has cast doubt on the ...

A paragraph-by-paragraph decipherment of the unprecedented speech given by ‘C’ last week.

Building on his experience of what went right and wrong in the years when he was a GCHQ officer, Alex Thomson has reflected on how British intelligence has performed since the Second World War and presents his outline findings in this talk.

The deal, the whole deal, and nothing but the deal is EU Defence Union. This is the key to understanding the EU’s and Tories’ version of “leaving” the EU — Brexit.

What has the Franco British Council been doing to help us get along with the French in a charitable way? 

On Monday 24 November 2017, Strategic Defence Initiatives UK submitted the following report to the Defence Select Committee of the House of Commons.

It appears to be easier to tell the truth about EU military union in Rotterdam than in London.

Today was an "historic" day, according to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. Today she got her military, her single point military budget, and her ability to prosecute wars overseas without the need to get the approval of national electorates ...

The government and mainstream media here in Britain would have us believe Brexit is a chaotic disaster. Yet, behind the scenes, the military unification policy is progressing as planned, and at pace.

There was no 'error'. The scrapping of Nimrod put the nuclear deterrent at grave risk of detection and targeting by hostile powers, at a time when the very same Conservative government which scrapped it is repeatedly warning of the growing capability ...

The top brass offer highly unconvincing explanations for the brand destruction of the British military.

The surviving veterans of Operation BANNER number over a hundred thousand. Many of them are now turning out on the streets outside the Houses of Parliament as they wake up to HM Government's policy of appeasement of Marxist terrorism and the EU ...

HM Government's front man for the loss of the Nimrods and our last aircraft carriers is 'delighted' to hold a jamboree with a change agent from the Rada who made her name by promising to streak through the streets of Kiev. While she was in London ...

A briefing by Strategic Defence Initiatives on the EU's subversion of the British military.

LONG READ: Under cover of the Brexit trade negotiations, the real trade deal has just happened. Nobody said anything about it; nobody knew about it.

Strategic Defence Initiatives' submission to MPs describes at length how HM Armed Forces have been betrayed, how they are being denied workable British equipment by MoD policy, and how they continue to be amalgamated into EU military union despite ...

Saudi Arabia says it “regrets” the killing of 142 Yemeni people at a funeral on Saturday. Britain’s Middle East Minister, Tobias Ellwood says he is “concerned”.

British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon met his German counterpart yesterday to firm up Britain’s defence “partnership” with Germany.

Not an "EU Army" but EU military union: The EU is desperately requiring control of its member states' militaries and budgets. Nobody in Parliament is bothering to mention this.

Javid's military gaff was a golden nugget for those watching treason unfold at UK government level - and no ifs or buts - to leave the nation defenceless is treason....

While they wine and dine in DC and Westminster, their hired hands work overtime to make rivers of blood in Syria.

The British led drive for war with Russia, using an attack on Iran as the touch paper, continues with William Hague taking point. 

President Obama may have forgotten to mention that the American troops due to leave Iraq at the end of 2011 would need to be deployed almost immediately elsewhere.

We are to be stripped of the military power to act alone, our military command and control structures are to be weakened and confused by French ‘collaboration’ and ‘partnering’, and we are to be stripped of nuclear weapons. The security of Britain is ...

In July 2008, there was an interesting exchange between Sir Peter Tapsell and Gordon Brown during Prime Minister’s Questions.