Auntie Has Been Spooked

Last night for want of anything better to do, I watched Spooks. How the hell are they getting away with this? Russia was depicted, on no basis whatever, as a threat to this country, and one, moreover, with which ageing Soviet fellow-travellers would actively sympathise.

In fact, of course, the only present Russian Government is the only thing standing between that country and the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or else the National Bolsheviks beloved of the BBC and whose flag is that of Nazi Germany but with the hammer and sickle in place of the swastika.

And Russia herself is, as one way or another she has always been (and these days specifically as country which has restored the teaching of Christianity in schools, as forbidden in the United States and detested in this country by Russia’s enemies here), the shield protecting us all from either or both of Islamic and Far Eastern domination.

Meanwhile, the office of Home Secretary, to which Spooks depicts MI5 as answering, has lately been occupied by Charles Clarke and John Reid. So Auntie, the Cold War is over. But it is not at all clear which side won. Well, not here it isn’t. Nor in the land of the land of the Project for the New American Century and the American Enterprise Institute, clearly with no intention of going anywhere, elections or no elections.

Thank God for Russia.