A SAD Officer, Indeed

Of course, it meant SAS. 

But the hope that the Sikhs, prominent in the Indian Army, will remain a bulwark of the old culturally Anglophile, politically pro-American Indian elite is not assisted by the realisation that the staunchly Sikh SAD relies on the BJP to deliver its majority at State level in Punjab, and therefore supports the BJP at Union level. 

After this week's revelations, the SAD, and with it the BJP, must think that all its Vaisakhis have come at once.

Meanwhile, the Sikh separatists then backed by Pakistan always knew that there had been foreign involvement in the storming of the Golden Temple. But they assumed that it had been by and from the Soviet Union.

That would have made some sense, at the time. This made none. Yet it happened.

We also now know for a fact about the mass pit closure programme, about the Police Officers sent into the pit villages without numbers in order to wreak havoc, and about the plan to do the same with the Army, which would have poisoned its relations with the communities from which it recruited, as surely as happened to the Police.

But we have not even had the Orgreave papers yet. Or the new Hillsborough Inquest.

Thatcher died just in time.