Thursday 13 September 2018

Melchester Rovers

Every aspect of the Skripal suspects' story makes perfect sense, and the RT interview itself was a great deal more professional than anything to which any British broadcaster has ever subjected either Theresa May or, by a different measure, Jeremy Corbyn. "Bizarre and carefully choreographed," indeed.

The London media find it hilarious that Salisbury Cathedral's clock and spire might be world famous. But they are. The great fame of Saint Bede the Venerable would doubtless tickle them no less, as would the news that numerous European languages had a word for "Cornwall", not something that they had for English counties in general, because of the Europeanisation of Arthurian mythology, of Tristan and Iseult, and so forth. There are many other such examples.

Spook after spook is being "interviewed" today, by spook after spook. They are no longer even pretending. These are the people who give and receive the security clearance that is withheld from aides to Corbyn (although he himself has been successfully vetted for the Privy Council), even though the only murder of a sitting MP since as long ago as 1990 has been by the spooks' own Far Right, which has also made several other attempts, including repeatedly foiled plots to murder Corbyn himself. 

This Government is so enmeshed in that world, the intersection of the spooks and the Far Right, that a key figure in it is not only a Cabinet Minister, but received the votes of first 48 and then 46 MPs for Leader of the Conservative Party in 2016, when another such, also now in the Cabinet, took a further 16 on the first ballot.

It is they, and anyone with the slightest connection to Saudi Arabia, who ought to be denied the slightest security clearance, as was, it must be said, an issue for Liam Fox's staff when, terrifyingly, he was the Secretary of State for Defence. But instead, we have this. Be afraid. Be very, very, very afraid.

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