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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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Analysis: Britain’s diminished capabilities

The Ministry of Defence seems as overwhelmed by the challenges to come as it has by those of the last decade. By Alex Stevenson Today’s defence green paper is riddled with admissions of weakness, some tacit and others explicit. The ‘lessons learned’ session is especially frank. In the space of just a few paragraphs the… Read more »

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John Reid was made defence secretary after the 2005 general election
Final defence evidence at Iraq inquiry

By politics.co.uk staff The final round of questions for the defence establishment are being delivered by the Iraq inquiry today. Sir Kevin Tebbit, former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), said Gordon brown, then chancellor, insisted on a “complete guillotine” of defence spending just months after the invasion. The £1 billion cut was… Read more »