
Simon Diggins
@simonleodiggins
Defence, Security and Military Analyst. Former British Army Officer with service in Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and West Africa.
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09-09-2011 22:18:26
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Too many politicians treat the world like a student union. Abstract, simplistic and completely disconnected from reality. The world is not a debating club. It is a dangerous place where power matters, where democracy is fragile and where enemies don’t play by the rules. That’s




Ed Miliband Spare us the soundbites, Ed. Your so-called “clean energy transition” is built on taxing working families into poverty and destroying our domestic oil & gas industry. You’ve slapped windfall taxes on UK producers while we keep importing foreign energy. You’ve done nothing to

Great article by Rt. Hon Ben Wallace Trump should make Nato a subscription service His description of HM Treasury clever-d1ck accounting tricks to artificially boost defence, headline spending is jaw-dropping. We’re being treated as fools! thetimes.com/article/eb6303…

Nadia Whittome MP No we certainly must not. We should be applauding them. The majority of the Middle East is secretly happy. The only ones who are not are Islamist terrorists and their supporters. Look at yourself! x.com/mspurplex/stat…


Israel’s attack on Iran was no surprise. My letter to The Spectator Now slightly overtaken by events but the basic argument holds true: Iran shall not be permitted to have nukes and we should unequivocally support Israel and US in eliminating them. spectator.co.uk/article/letter…


100% Simon Diggins in The Spectator today. We are forgetting who our friends are, and why. This is why we also need principled political leadership…



Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 Simon Diggins The Spectator Not forgetting Iran's 1989 fatwa on Salman Rushdie - which set in motion the ongoing erosion of free speech in the West.

Brilliant article by Trevor Phillips How Keir Starmer’s feeble grip on power got weaker thetimes.com/article/705240…

.Dan Jarvis MP Well done, Sir!



Zarah Sultana MP You were in Year 6 when they blew up Londoners, Zarah. But 20 years later, you still can’t say who they were. You remember the pain. But not the perpetrators. You honour the victims. But stand with the ideology that created them. This is the same MP who said “We are all
