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Why buy a fighter jet if a child with half an iPhone can wreck it?
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth last week when Sir Starmer failed to announce that Britain would definitely be going ahead with plans to develop a new jet fighter called the Tempest. Even The Times ran a leader on the matter urging him, in so …