Slick

If the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to a dissident in Saudi Arabia or in North Korea, then would that person have made it to Oslo, even if too late for the ceremony? Yet María Corina Machado has just arrived there. What a fearsome despot Nicolás Maduro clearly is. And did Machado sail into the harbour on the Venezuelan oil tanker that the Americans had hijacked? Or will that be conveying Juan Guaidó to Miami now that he was surplus to requirements at home?

It seems that Britain is to resume arming the Argentina of Machado's ally, Javier Milei. Until the eve of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982, Margaret Thatcher had been about to sell the ships that then had to be deployed. At a bargain basement price. To Argentina. But during the Falklands War, Argentina was armed by the Israel that Machado has invited to invade Venezuela in her interests and, once she had her hands on the oil, in its own. Being otherwise engaged, Benjamin Netanyahu is not known to have agreed. Under Milei, though, Argentina is very much in on this. By arming Argentina, so will we be. Well, so will our lords and masters be, anyway. I cannot yet see the specific role of Tony Blair. But he will have one.