Although Iran had developed its own version of the missile system – unveiled for the first time last year – delivery of the S-300s will markedly upgrade its anti-aircraft missile defences at a time of increased tension in the region.
However, annual real-terms spending on flood defences will fall by 15% under the coalition government.
Says Lushington: "The story had a pervasive humour that lowers our defences while it draws us in.
There's a particular family of genes called APOBEC3 which produces antiretroviral enzymes, one of the body's main defences against viral infection.
David Cameron told the BBC that Sturgeon had made "a series of ransom demands" which would threaten Britain's defences by allegedly linking support for Labour with scrapping the new generation of Trident missiles.
The drug, which uses the body's own defences to spot and kill cancer cells rather than attacking them with chemotherapy, is regarded as potentially one of the most groundbreaking of recent years.
Working up to 10km out to sea in hours after dark and pre-dawn, it is unavoidable to meet those patrolling Mumbai's sea defences for the Koli.
Hong Myong-bo likes fast counter-attacks with skilful wide players getting behind defences.
As well as mutating rapidly, the virus has its own counter defences, producing a protein called viral infectivity factor (Vif) which tricks the body into destroying its own APOBEC3 enzymes.
Less pleasing will be the lack of new money for flood defences, with funding already judged inadequate against the increasing risks by the government's own climate change advisors.
Spending on flood defences, which was boosted following the damaging 2014 floods in England, is likely to be unofficially ring-fenced, said Dustin Benton of the thinktank Green Alliance.
