In October of last year, Ken McCallum, the head of the UK's domestic intelligence agency MI5, spelled out the dangers posed by Beijing in no uncertain terms.
If you want an example of the reckless foolishness of the Net Zero madness foisted upon Britain, look no further than Labour's decision to ease sanctions on Russia's murderous regime.
The revelation that our Attorney General was part of a group of lawyers said to have hounded British soldiers on behalf of Iraqi hoodlums and thugs will surprise no one who served in Iraq.
We've long known that the Chagos deal is a witch's brew of competing interests, drawing in the Chinese, a coven of Left-wing lawyers and a Mauritian government eyeing up billions.
Was it complacency or a cover-up? Either way, our political leaders buried their heads in the sand, giving us false reassurance while refusing to invest in defence.
Even by Keir Starmer's standards, the Chagos debacle has become an icon of incompetence. There is a fascinating whodunnit to be written about the imbroglio.
His frame was thin and his eyes hollow, but in the last images of Alexei Navalny , appearing in court via video link from his Arctic penal colony, the Russian opposition leader was in good spirits.
Celebrity after celebrity was seen sporting a bob, whether teased into 1930s curls like Selena Gomez's or falling in gentler waves in the version favored by Emma Stone.
BOB SEELY: The peace that US President Donald Trump is offering is a potentially fatal one that will lead to greater danger for Ukraine. This is not peace, but delayed capitulation.
Oh, the sheer irony of it! As Government minister Dan Jarvis stands up in Parliament to talk tough on Chinese spying, just three miles down the River Thames, Operation Kowtow is still in full swing.