Make It Make Sense

20,000 or more foxhounds, which would be completely unsuitable as pets, will be destroyed to save, well, how many foxes, more or less? It will be illegal to boil a lobster alive, but legal to abort a child at nine months' gestation, or to assist the suicide of her mother. No one is to be allowed social media until the new voting age of 16, two years below the school leaving age that will soon be the age of conscription, but there is to be no minimum age for experimental puberty blockers the adverse effects of which had already caused them to be banned in sheep.

The arrest, though not yet the charging, of people who shouted the inadvisable "Globalise the Intifada" or that echo of the Likud Charter which is "From the River to the Sea", is welcomed by those who thought that Lucy Connolly ought not to have been imprisoned for having successfully incited arson with intent to endanger life, nor Luke Yarwood for having tweeted, "Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MP houses in Parliament. We need to take over by FORCE."

It is considered scandalous that Hayden Davies has been given 13 years by a court in Donetsk for having travelled to Ukraine to fight for the side that Britain was backing there but which was about to lose, yet it is considered perfectly reasonable to denaturalise Shabina Begum and to ban her for life from this country because she had been trafficked to Syria as a sex slave for the side that Britain was backing there and which had now won. Having won, that side has bombed the Iowa National Guard, so the Americans are having to retaliate against that latest indication that no one important had read Frankenstein.

But Britain provides arms and intelligence to those who bombed James Kirby, James Henderson and John Chapman three times to make sure that they were dead, while marches in support of those whom our veterans had been aiding are to be banned because of the deaths, more than five times further away than Gaza, of five thousand times fewer people than had so far been killed there. Having been pouted at for "not talking about Sudan" and other places, we, the only people who ever did talk about them, are castigated for still talking about anywhere other than white and wealthy Bondi Beach.

And so on, and on, and on, and on, and on. Even the few things that have a certain logic are all the more horrific for it. Of course elections are being cancelled in a country that was preparing to conscript its youth to die for Volodymyr Zelensky. And of course the false claim to have held Master's and doctoral degrees, a claim that had been used to secure paid employment, is no bar to appointment as a legislator for life in the country whose politics have been dominated for more than 30 years by a man who for more than 20 of them had been known to have made himself fabulously rich by having lied it into war.