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Robert Fox

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Writer, Def Ed Evening Standard, broadcaster, Hon Fellow Exeter SSI etc -- especially etc

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  • Starmer's defence plan will soon be revealed. The fear is it's not enough

    4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Robert Fox

    Once the party is over for VE Day – marking victory in Europe in 1945 – the Government will face the severest scrutiny of Britain’s capability and credibility in the defence of the homeland and the wider European neighbourhood in decades. The first crunch point comes tomorrow in Oslo when the Prime Minister is expected to join the governments of the ten Nato nations that comprise the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) for its annual summit.

  • As India and Pakistan teeter on the nuclear brink, Britain could have a crucial role to play

    4 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Robert Fox

    CommentRobert Fox2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The missile strikes on Pakistan carried out by Indian warplanes herald another outbreak of serious conflict between the two neighbours who started fighting in the very year they won independence from Britain in 1947.

  • The most interesting thing about the Ukraine-US minerals deal is what it didn't contain

    1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Robert Fox

    CommentRobert Fox2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Donald Trump has got it over the line: some sort of deal over the future of Ukraine, signed by May 1.

  • Vladimir Putin wants to declare victory in Ukraine by May 9th - but even Trump's 'peace' plan leaves him with problems

    1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Robert Fox

    CommentRobert Fox2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Donald Trump says his seven-point peace plan is his last throw on Ukraine – saying to Moscow and Ukraine, take it, or I leave it.

  • Defence spending needs to hit 3.5%, Starmer warned

    1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Robert Fox

    The Government’s radical defence review, due out by Easter, is now undergoing intense revision with the growing realisation that that the government needs to spend far more than the promised 2.5 per cent of GDP on Britain’s defences.

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Robert Fox
Robert Fox @robfox45
7 May 25

We have to recognise the world is run by the 3 big guys (Xi,Putin,Trump) or ‘we all become road kill’ so says the BBC’s Editor and universal sage Jeremy Bowen

Robert Fox
Robert Fox @robfox45
5 May 25

See WSJ on China’s disappearing official statistics! Today’s WSJ app.

Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards @MartinE33275784

@robfox45 Projections for China are showing births for 2025 are showing a potential fall from 9.5 mil to 8.25 mil & in 2026 to be 7 mil. At the same time deaths are expected to increase by 2 mil per yr. 2026 China could loose more people than the entire population of New Zealand.

Robert Fox
Robert Fox @robfox45
1 May 25

I think your and Mr Pepys ‘ gaff is a touch lexicographically inflationary with the fifth letter of the alphabet!

John Simpson
John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews

@robfox45 @edwardlucas It’s just a matter of economising on the ‘e’s…