Defence

Sunday round-up 12 October 2025

Admit it, when did you last hold Carlos the Jackal and Les Dennis in the same thought? Yet birthday boys both today; and various forms of Columbus Day…

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Sunday round-up 5 October 2025

Clinking glasses for Peter Ackroyd, Bob Geldof and Imran Khan, the first aerial combat and International Day of No Prostitution—lots to get through...

Oct 5 •

Sunday round-up 28 September 2025

French icon Brigitte Bardot celebrates her 91st birthday, it's the feast of St Wenceslaus and Ulster Day marks the signing of the Solemn League and…

Sep 28 •

Undersea cables and UK national resilience

Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy recently published a report on undersea cables, from which we can draw broader…

Sep 27 •

Sunday round-up 21 September 2025

Birthday greetings to Jerry Bruckheimer, Stephen King, Bill Murray, Samantha Power and Liam Gallagher. Not necessarily a party you'd want to attend.

Sep 21 •

News recap: new French premier, German spies, Mandelson's peerage

Keeping on top of the news is never easy so some matters to note while everything else goes on

Sep 17 •

Sunday round-up 14 September 2025

The Holy Father, Sir Sam Neill and Nas are all celebrating birthdays, President William McKinley died and it is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy…

Sep 14 •

Sunday round-up 7 September 2025

Birthdays for Gloria Gaynor, David Cannadine and Corbin Bernsen, while Brazil celebrates 203 years of independence and Ukraine honours its military…

Sep 7 •

Sunday round-up 31 August 2025

Van Morrison, Debbie Gibson and Queen Rania of Jordan walk into a bar... because it's their birthday! Somehow they agree to raise a glass for the feast…

Aug 31 •

Germany has a new National Security Council

Will the new coordinating body benefit the government's policy-making?

Aug 30 •

The "Department of War": please, Donald, read a book

Trump is ignorant of how the Department of Defense came into being but his adolescent assumptions reveal a fundamentally aggressive spirit

Aug 28 •

Sunday round-up 24 August 2025

Birthday greetings to Jean-Michel Jarre, Sir Stephen Fry and Dave Chappelle, and a sombre but defiant marking of Ukraine's Independence Day

Aug 24 •

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