No Disinformation Here

German tanks are rolling east. What could possibly go wrong? In my native Saint Helena, can you hear that laughter in the air? That is the ghost of Napoleon, as we prepared to invade Russia in the winter. The nuances in Central and Eastern European public opinion are not due to "Russian disinformation", but to a knowledge of the subject necessarily far greater than that of most people farther west.

In Ukraine, they are running out of schoolboys, old age pensioners, and the Carpathian Magyars whose press-ganging has enraged the Hungarian Government. That is why they need German tanks, either directly or via Poland and elsewhere. Openly or otherwise, Poland still wants a huge tract of Ukrainian territory, and this is its chance. The Ukrainian Government that we have canonised is falling apart due to the corruption that some of us have been trying from the start to point out. Ukraine is as corrupt at Russia. Yes, as corrupt as that.

Like Mali before it, Burkina Faso has just expelled the forces of the old French colonial power and undertaken to fight the Islamist insurgency without them, but with the Wagner Group still very much on the ground. After all, against men inspired, funded and directed by the House of Saud, what use are men answerable to one of that House's neoconservative courtiers such as Emmanuel Macron?

Rishi Sunak's permission of Yevgeny Prigozhin to circumvent sanctions and sue Eliot Higgins indicates that on these matters, Sunak is less of an opportunistic fanatic, and what a thing it is to be both, than Boris Johnson is. It also bespeaks the welcome willingness even of the Johnson Government to hedge its bets, before Johnson was sent to his Elba to plot his Cent-Jours.

Prigozhin and Bellingcat, the Wagner Group and the Azov Battalion, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg, Jeremy Clarkson and the Markles: "It's a pity that only one of them can lose" is usually attributed to Henry Kissinger in relation to the Iran-Iraq War. I have no doubt that he said it, but it is far too obvious never to have been uttered before the 1980s. Whoever coined it, I salute you. Outside the Bible, it is my favourite quotation of all time.

Sadly, the Labour Party of Keir Starmer sides with Bellingcat, with the Azov Battalion, with the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, with Greta Thunberg, and with the Markles. But Starmer's dishonesty, his disinformation, is becoming a story. He lied to his party members to get their votes, so he would lie to anyone else to get their votes. We are heading for a hung Parliament. To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.