http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10812825 Trident costs must come from MoD budget, Osborne says The £20bn Trident bill is more than half of the MoD's annual...

Trident must be part of the Strategic Defence Review, argues Des Browne The Coalition government is embarked upon a ‘strategic’ security and defence review...

more evidence of the MoD's inability to keep to budget - so why do the media regularly repeat government trident replacement estimates without critique?...

Liam Fox has told the Telegraph that Britain doesn’t have the cash to defend itself from every threat. What can I say? All the arguments were put forward...

Defence spending: Too little, too much Britain's hubristic claim to be able to support global military status on the cheap is being exposed The Guardian,...

One of the four Trident submarines could be cut to save costs but the decision won’t be made until 2014/2015. Maybe this is what the coalition means by “the...

A couple of interesting blogs: 1.  Public want rethink on Trident http://www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=13482   2. 4th Trident sub...

Poll backs rethink on new Trident By James Blitz, Defence and Diplomatic Editor Published: July 13 2010 00:00 | Last updated: July 13 2010 00:00 A...

To give you a giggle of a morning here’s a sample from the ‘have your say of savings’ section of the spending review website   Divert all welfare funding...

We can now all submit ideas for how the government should solve its spending difficulties by going straight to http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/...

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone else is blogging on http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/ I'm happy to, but have had a couple of 'scrap Trident' messages...

The Daily Telegraph has published a bizarre report stating that, in the event of a nuclear war, the Queen would have been bundled off to the Royal Yacht...

The Treasury has set up a 'Spending Challenge' website inviting the public to suggest areas where cuts could be made in public spending. You know what to do...

ThinkDefence has a lot of interesting blogs/comments e.g. a 'what to cut?' thread here Has a whole section on Defence Reviews...

The virtual campaigning network 38 Degrees are asking for ideas on future campaigns, including whether they should become involved in anti-Trident campaigning...

http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/   the government has launched a website on spending cuts - "Now, we want you to help us find...

All's fair in cuts and war Thank goodness Osborne didn't cut 'defence' spending – where would we be without our fear of hidden enemies under the bed?...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8750000/8750935.stm   here we have conservative MP Bernard Jenkin effectively arguing for ringfencing the...