The UN Secretary General has today stated that the Cold War is back. "The Cold War is back with a vengeance, but with a difference," he said. "The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present." UN chief says Cold War is back

30 years ago the Cold War was, in some ways, comforting. We knew who the bad guys were, we knew where they were and we knew what they were doing. There was an openness about it. They watched us, we watched them.

These days I don't think we know where the biggest threat lays. Is it Russia? China? North Korea? Any number of Middle East groups or coalitions?

Challenged to produce a humorous end of course photo, the latest bunch of Royal Signals Troop Commanders have excelled themselves with a 'super cringe sarcastic family photo shoot to annoy people because it is no way military'.

By all accounts this is 'the most exciting thing that's happened to the RS (ed -Royal Scots??) in about the last 20 years'