You think the FT piece is bad, JN - you should see what Lewis Page has written in The Register. Won't provide a link, since I'm worried what it might do to your blood pressure. That, and the fact that as it's online it doesn't even have the merits of being soft and thoroughly absorbant... (precis - Page thinks that harder negotiation with the Germans and Spanish will lead to that pair of nations agreeing that there should be no Tranche 3 of Typhoon at all!!!)