Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Oliver's Begging Bowl

I normally ignore Oliver Kamm. Would that the same could be said in the other direction.

But the Hillsborough Report is coming, closing The Sun, and thus depriving of their livelihoods the financial dependants, previously of Page Three, and still of Sun Bingo.

Eventually, the Chilcot Report will also arrive, an event that it seems most unlikely that Kamm's mental health, such as it is, could survive. Well, my physical health has not survived many years of him, so my heart bleeds.

I would attend any funeral of his. Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Not even the funeral of Damian Thompson, and that is saying quite something.

None of that, however, is my main point here.

That point is this: in the last 24 hours, Kamm has been actively seeking to damage the causes of the Dalits, the Chagossians, the Rohingya, and the non-Islamist dissidents in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Neoconservatives presumably see either or both of Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese junta as bulwarks against this, that or the other.

Their well-remunerated fondness for Hindu nationalism, for the global American military-industrial complex, and for the Gulf tyrannies, is of course no secret to anyone.

Kamm is also a strong admirer of Denis Healey, who exiled the Chagossians.

At least in Britain, the Murdoch Empire is about to collapse. But it is clear that at least one its satraps is already making other arrangements.

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