Let’s Get This Strait

Before Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their war on Iran, two months after the demonstrations had been put down so don’t give me that, the Strait of Hormuz was not only open, but toll-free. It has still not properly reopened, and there will now be tolls, with Trump taking a cut. That, and that alone, has been the reason for this war.

Very soon indeed, this will literally be the textbook unjust war. Certainly via RAF Akrotiri and RAF Lakenheath while as good as certainly in numerous other ways, Britain has been a full participant in it from start to finish in return. As ever, we have wasted our blood and treasure for absolutely nothing from the Americans, or from the Israelis, or from the Gulf monarchs who apparently needed to be defended in the cause of democracy and against Islamist terrorism.

Keir Starmer’s barefaced lie about our role in this war has been as perfectly characteristic as the uselessness of the equally Epstein Class Conservative Party and Reform UK in taking him at his word. But is there anyone, anyone at all, who really and truly believes Starmer about Peter Mandelson? How intriguing a conversation with such a person would be, not only on this, but on absolutely anything. I have known for 30 years that Mandelson was a wrong’un. Never mind Starmer. Make me Prime Minister. Or anyone else at all, really.