George Allison
Founder and Editor-in-Chief at UK Defence Journal
Journalist | @gcu_alumni and Cyber Security graduate. | @NUJofficial member. | Editor of @UKDefJournal and prolific freelancer | Talks about 🚢s & ✈️s.
Articles
-
3 days ago |
ukdefencejournal.org.uk | George Allison
Senior Conservative MP Sir Julian Lewis has urged the government to ensure it has a robust legal basis before proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, warning that a failed court challenge would do lasting damage.
-
3 days ago |
ukdefencejournal.org.uk | George Allison
Dramatic new images show a powerful array of British F-35B Lightning jets lined up across the deck of HMS Prince of Wales as the UK Carrier Strike Group arrived in Singapore on 23 June. The imagery was captured by Leading Photographer James Clarke and AS1 Amber Mayall, and is © Crown copyright 2025.
-
3 days ago |
ukdefencejournal.org.uk | George Allison
Known as the Voyager Operating System Evolution (VOSE), the project will deliver the design, development, certification, and through-life support of a new mission system for the RAF’s Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA). According to the contract award notice, the upgrade includes integration of the Multifunction Information Distribution System and the Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS/JTRS), vital components for secure communications and interoperability.
-
3 days ago |
ukdefencejournal.org.uk | George Allison
The move represents the most significant change to Britain’s nuclear posture in a generation and will reintroduce an air-delivered nuclear capability to the Royal Air Force for the first time since the Cold War. Speaking ahead of this week’s NATO summit, the Prime Minister said the decision would strengthen the UK’s deterrence posture, support over 20,000 jobs across the country, and deliver what he called a “defence dividend” for British industry.
-
3 days ago |
ukdefencejournal.org.uk | George Allison
On 12 June 2025, dozens of anonymous X (formerly Twitter) accounts advocating Scottish independence abruptly went silent. Many had posted hundreds of times per week, often using pro-independence slogans, anti-UK messaging, and identity cues like “NHS nurse” or “Glaswegian socialist.”Their sudden disappearance coincided with a major Israeli airstrike campaign against Iranian military and cyber infrastructure.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 29K
- Tweets
- 10K
- DMs Open
- Yes
I'm in two minds over this, it's nice to have support but the work we do is directly enabled by having those adverts. We can't do it without them. https://t.co/XQpOLPSFTl
Russia has not used tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
@Batboy_Supreme Appears as they were distracting us between the feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump it seems that Russia has deployed tactical nuclear weapons into Ukraine and detonated them... Just saw a video of people speaking what sounds to be Russian and what appears to be a small
RT @UKDefJournal: Our editor @geoallison has just left NATO HQ where Secretary General Mark Rutte outlined ambitious defence spending plans…