In one week:

While our Foreign Secretary was shaking hands with Wang Yi's in @ASEAN conference in Manila...

@BritishArmy was losing its training grounds in Kenya.

Two stories that look unconnected. They're not.

They're the same story.

It's what our China policy has cost. 1/ September's exercise in Nanyuki, where generations of British infantrymen have trained in the African dust, now moves to Salisbury Plain.

The conditions are not as harsh, the soldiers will be less tested, less prepared. 2/

The @BBCNews has now confirmed what some of us warned for years.

A Russian diplomat ran a sabotage campaign on British soil: arson against the Prime Minister’s own home, and fake far-right and Islamist groups built to turn us against each other. This is not crime. It is how war is fought by powers who don’t want to expose their hand. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Anyone who still downplays Russia’s attacks is one of two things: wilfully ignorant or complicit. There is no third category. The Kremlin is not ambiguous about its intent. Nor should we be.
Those who bend the knee to Moscow are traitors. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Britain has enough ammunition to fight for eight days.

That’s it. After years of relying on the US to hold the war stocks we’d need in a major conflict, we now have almost nothing left. 1/5 It’s been an open secret in defence for years. It lasted because war felt distant. It doesn’t anymore. 2/5

Countries have been at war with Britain for a decade.
We’ve contained the danger, but that’s becoming harder, and the reality of what we face still isn’t widely understood. There’s a growing gap between what’s discussed inside government, the security services and the military, and what’s spoken about in public, even as the consequences of those private conversations edge out of the shadows and into our daily lives.

This:👇
If this happens and Tehran’s dictators are finally crumbling then the world changes.

This is a very quick list…

https://twitter.com/navidmohebbi/status/2006387211680539076

1. Iran returning to the energy markets lowers prices by adding 6+ mbd putting fiscal and political strain on petrostates - particularly Russia.

1/ The UK could be about to become the only G7 nation unable to produce virgin steel.

Not recycled scrap — real, primary steel made from iron ore.

That’s not just industrial decline. It’s a strategic threat.🧵 2/ Without the ability to make virgin steel, we lose control over sovereign defence, critical infrastructure, and advanced engineering.

This isn’t just economic.

It’s a national security blind spot — one no other G7 country tolerates.

Over the last few months we’ve seen the complete collapse of Tehran’s strategy for control in the Middle East.

From their support for Hamas and Hezbollah to threaten Israel, to their puppet state in Syria, the Iranian regime has controlled territory and terror for decades. 1/ But the regime has never had popular support. Violence and intimidation were the only way its empire could be sustained.

Amongst Palestinians, murder was used daily to keep Hamas in charge. Thousands were killed to keep control and aid stolen to enrich their leaders. 2/

Keir Starmer has proved he cannot be trusted on national security.

That’s a serious problem. The world is more dangerous now than I've ever known it.

Here are some facts about Labour that Sir Keir doesn’t want you to know.

🧵👇 Just two years ago, Labour MPs were coming out the woodwork to support ‘Stop The War’.

STW called for resistance ‘by whatever means’ against British troops overseas.

Corbyn founded and chaired STW. And Keir Starmer tried to put him in power. Twice.