Inherent Resolve

Three cheers for Major General Christopher Ghika. If we seriously want to defeat the so-called Islamic State that we created in Iraq and Syria, then Iran is an ally. The question is whether we have any such seriousness. And then we are in good old "follow the money" territory.

Iran is not nice. But was Stalin nice? Yet we would not have defeated Hitler without him. Notice, in fact, that "They won the War for us" is used to give the Americans a free pass, but not to give one to the Russians. No such pass ought to be given to either of them.

As the scandal of Pegasus, NSO and WhatsApp makes clear, even at the highest and deepest levels of intelligence and security, Israel courts Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which do not officially recognise that Israel exists, because they are where the real power and money are.

Saudi Arabia pretty much is the so-called Islamic State, the UAE also has very serious questions to answer, and Israel is important, insofar as it is, because they say that it is.

There is an Israel Lobby, but it is a small affair compared to the politicians and others who are drinking from the same cash tap as irrigates the bombing of the streets of Britain. Some of those politicians and others are the people running Israel. To mix metaphors, Israel is a cog. The wheel is Saudi Arabia.

Another such cog is the ever compliant British ruling element. But another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.