Turkish Delights

Why has no villager on Davos called into a police station and demanded the arrest of the numerous notorious thieves who have now washed up there?

Anyway, to the behaviour of the Turkish Prime Minister, and to the welcome that he received on returning to Istanbul. Turkey is determined to be a Great Power again. The Islamists and the secular ultra-nationalists are agreed on that. Furthermore, it is the Islamists who are in power, right here within NATO, and putatively within the EU soon enough.

And they are the Turkish Tories, affiliated to the European People’s Party, and indeed very much of a piece with Cameron and his promise to create little Caliphates, Hindutvas, Khalistans, and doubtless also Judeas for those finally evicted from the West Bank, to be run by “local community leaders” who will decide the public holidays and who knows what else in return for ensuring that they and their mates fill out every postal voting form in their households in the interests of the Bullingdon Boys. Needless to say, these little Caliphates, Hindutvas, Khalistans and Judeas will be global magnets, thus entrenching and perpetuating themselves for ever. No wonder that Turkey’s ruling AKP feels such an affinity with Cameroons.

We have been warned.