British Open?

This afternoon, the shareholders approved the sale of the Royal Mail to Daniel Křetínský, who still pumps Russian gas into the EU with its approval. Yet the British State approved this acquisition, explicitly on national security grounds, as long ago as December, and it will retain a golden share such that Křetínský will now be the British Government's business partner as well as the Russian Government's. The only truly golden share is public ownership. Anything that needs this, needs that. And you have not been told the truth about Ukraine. Well, you have been told it on here and in a few other places. But not in general.

After well over three years, none of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk or Zaporizhzhia has been wholly captured by Russia, which is being offered, and looks set to accept, only the bits that it had managed to take as well as Crimea, which is no more Ukrainian than Algeria was French, with Ukraine told in no uncertain terms that there would be no more American support if it fought on after that, meaning that it could not possibly do so. Thus will end the war that had brought North Korean troops into combat for the first time since 1953. Alas for the poetic of soul that it could not have ended today, the fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnamese capture of Saigon, and the eightieth anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler. Dare we hope for Victory Day, which has not been kept in Ukraine since 2015? Think about that.

Yet still we are expected to believe that the Russian Army, which has been unable to enter the Russian-speaking city of Kherson less than 20 miles from the border, was poised to park its tanks on the Atlantic coast of every European country that had one. In the midst of this nonsense, yet showing no sign of being aware of it, Donald Trump is doing what he does, and arranging for himself, his relatives and his associates to coin it in from the oil, gas and minerals of Ukraine. His designs on Canada, Greenland and Panama are of the same order.

20 years ago, the desperate wannabe Americans of British centrism and rightism, which are in fact different cultural codes for the single political position of a single social circle, were spectacularly unable to contain their contempt for Canada, which had refused to participate in the Iraq War. At the start of this month, the centrists were calling for Britain to offer asylum to American refugees from Trump. But the law in Britain has been found to be that sex meant biological sex, and Keir Starmer is lobbying for the 2028 British Open to be held at Turnberry. It is they who are going to have to flee. Presumably to Canada.