Neither Elaborate Nor A Hoax

No one needs a conspiracy theory about the Manchester Arena attack. The undisputed truth is bad enough. We told you for years, and years, and years that successive British Governments had turned Manchester into the world centre of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, to the point of dispatching the Royal Navy as its ferry service.

We were right all along about Libya, just as we were right about Kosovo; with gang violence in the news, where do you think that those guns, that heroin, and those prostitutes very largely come from? Just as we were right about Sierra Leone, where the best that can be said is that British military intervention did no good. Just as we were right about Afghanistan, the source of much of the heroin that makes its way here via Kosovo. Just we were about Iraq. Just as we were right about Syria, where it remains British Government policy that the regime should be overthrown by our creature, the so-called Islamic State. Just as we are being proved right about Ukraine. Just as we have now been proved right repeatedly about Yemen. And just as we are being proved right on a nightly basis about Lebanon.

It is no longer directly our business, but when will the EU be given a referendum on the admission of Moldova? And it is very much our business to ask when NATO was to be given a referendum on the admission either of Moldova, and thus of Transnistria, or of Ukraine.

As the Commonwealth assembles in Samoa, consider that two major cities on the South Pacific are named after British Prime Ministers. One is the second largest city in Australia, while the other is the capital of New Zealand. But there will never be a city in Libya called Cameron. There will never be a city in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, or even Kosovo, called Blair. There will never be a city in Ukraine called Johnson. And only in my fiction might there ever be a settlement called Starmer in annexed, cleared and colonised Lebanon or Gaza.