Tea on the Grass, with Sandwiches and Genocide.

It has been said that the Israeli Zionist project is a Genocidal 19th Century crime foisted upon a 21st Century world. I've heard it uttered, from various sources, shamefully, fearfully, tearfully, angrily, desperately, many ways, none of them with a semblance of pride! So, how is one honestly expected to speak of Crimes of such towering immensity?

When Israel's hateful plan is 'complete,' as 'envisaged' by the the Israeli State, should the very worst come to pass, how will the wider world then be expected to regard the perpetrators? Will the globe, once again, be permitted to regard the map and see for itself that, well, who could have known, Israel's actually situated in Asia? Will 'our' MSM finally relent and unearth the truth of those countless War Crimes? Which nations and individuals will be charged with the rebuilding? Who will deal with the bodies? Where will those who have escaped the Genocide be expected to live? Where will the thousands upon thousands of wounded citizens reside? Will the spoken numbers reflect actual fatalities or will these need to be 'modified' to sit more comfortably in the lap of 'the globe's most moral army?' Will the tales of War Criminals be listened to with polite nodding? Will international Human Rights once again be reanimated, once more become internationally pertinent- not to be vetoed by the USA? Will that questionable nation (Israel) finally 'settle down' and stop bombing and killing and torturing its 'neighbours' and hope to begin chatting 'amiably, as if the Genocide may so casually be swept under the carpet? As if the whole Genocidal affair never actually happened?

When the tea is poured, and the cucumber sandwiches distributed amongst the guests, what might be said? How will the conversation go? What will the globe hear? Will hands, those not murdered, those not atomised beneath a weight of Mediterranean rubble, be warmly shook, niceties exchanged? Will we all smile and pretend that Israel is no longer a nation capable of [cheering on] Genocide, guilty of celebrating War Crimes, guilty of the Torture of Minors, guilty of using Human Beings as Sniper Practice, guilty of tying human beings to the fronts of tanks (Human Shields) then driven into and over other people's lands and properties, conceivably guilty of Infanticide on horrific scale, guilty of Ethnic Cleansing, guilty of Weaponising Famine and Disease? Will we pretend that Israel is a nation we can trust not to bomb (conceivably) even our own shores, should it so wish? "Warm today, isn't it?" "Looking forward to the World Cup?"
Best not to mention the goalkeeper's time in the IDF!

What could be said in the wake of the Genocide?
How might we normalise Ethnic Cleansing?
Pretend we're all once again at peace?
"How do we, in the 'civilized' world, think we should deal with the threat of China?"
"Record on human rights leaves a lot to be desired, don't yuh know?"
"One's inclined to think Putin's a bit of a concern."


Should we be glib. Light-hearted, off-hand, dismissive? Will we be able to select our own speakers, or will these continue to be vetted and handed down? Pray, please God, that there will not be children to watch!

For those sitting up and paying attention...
... via the various news outlets, the UK has learned much about itself of late:
That faith in Main Stream Media has fallen to an all-time low.
That acceptance of the BBC's narrative is at its most jaded.
That pride in the UK's international history is at its weakest.
That the nation is at its most unequal in people's living memory.
That the integrity of the UK's politicians has never before been held in such contempt. Still, way too highly, some might contest.


All in all, the nation has reaped what it has sown. It's about where any reasonably attentive citizen might expect it to be.

See, the flip side to [Israel's] Settler-Colonial Genocide is going to come at a cost! Mostly now, the globe appears to recognise that the act of colonialism has poorly served its various populations, but still that acceptance has yet to have been responsibly 'owned,' particularly in correlation to each individual nation's culpability! The reckoning is ongoing!

Nation's have responded variably to their years of Cultural Vandalism, Human Displacements and conceivable Genocidal Behaviours. Certain Australian citizens have responded with open aggression- how dare outsiders (or insiders) tell them how 'their' lands should be divvied-up! Not all but significant numbers. Of course, Australia has its own shameful past! An enforced program of attempting to completely Assimilate the Aborigine population out of existence, Forcible Displacement of its native citizens.

With its greater landmass the US of A finds itself with superior swathes of fertile lands, so poorly and jealously measured out to its native populations whose lands it stole and Colonised. Yet, even this is as nothing compared to its Colonial Ambitions without, mostly covert. In terms of imagery the US is almost spoilt for choice. Perhaps a storm-damaged 'Hollywood' boarding best represents the nation, risen like so much unsightly and unburied refuse upon the hillside. Significant regions of the globe may still rightly regard the US as, 'over-paid, over ________ and over here!' Those expansive ambitions remain far too unsustainable for just the single planet. "We will coup whoever we want,” Elon Musk once wrote, “deal with it." With goals such as those of the US of A, we shouldn't be that surprised to see that it remains, way and above, the most tolerant of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Expansionism. Scholars of the US would do well to obtain a copy of 'How to Hide an Empire,' by Daniel Immerwahr, something of an eye opener!

'Rule Britannia...' and all that. It was once claimed that, 'the sun never set upon the British Empire.' Respondents have parried with, 'that's because God would be unwise to trust the Brits in the dark.' Several nations have dabbled with their various empirical ambitions; the UK has not been the first. It is, however, a very strong contender for having 'recently' ruled over the most expansive empire in modern history- modern enough that the remnants are still shaking off the yoke of their former oppressor! Modern enough that 'pride in the empire' has become a highly disputed subject in the national curriculum. Yet far enough in the past that the UK's covert masters have acted to steal a march upon the historians. 'Operation Legacy'- hatched and undertaken still in living memory- has been a shameful effort to overwrite aspects of the nation's more unsavoury past, to locate and destroy thousands of files documenting crimes committed in the name of empire, incidents recognised as 'unsuitable' for the proud history books! Unsavoury actions carried out in over 20 former and (then) current colonies. Something of an admission of guilt! Something of a recognition that Empire Building is a highly questionable exercise!

Israel, by every measure, finds itself well behind each and every one of these curves! Yet, it seems inevitable, at some point in the 'near' future, that the nation will expect/demand (AIPAC, Labour Friends of Israel, CAA) to be afforded continuation of their 'exceptionalist' status. Afforded access to international sporting events, afforded the cloak of European convenience, as and when deemed 'desireable.' Civilization will be hoping and praying the Israeli nation's fondness for selective War Crimes, as defined by the ICC, the ICJ, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'tSalem and a growing host of others, will have run its abhorrent course whilst there still survives a human population in Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights.

Israel's IDF currently displays scant evidence of due regard for human life. Likelihood of any change in direction remains uncertain at best. If one enables the mass murderer whilst entrusting that same character to a) cease killing at some vague time in the future, and then b) adjudge whether all further murders are actually murder, or else the result of any other vague cause under the sun, what, do we imagine, will be the likelihood that the murdering will stop? If Israel is able to target and shoot citizens also of Europe and the USA, in the absolute knowledge that the USA and Europe will continue to hand out free passes, what are the chances that Israel will stop murdering people/anyone? 'Exceptionalism' writ large! An exceptional contempt for human life!

But, here's the thing. There's no such thing as 'exceptionalism.' If there were, it could hardly be expected to apply solely to the two most Genocidal nations currently upon the Earth! Should one ever doubt this truth, watch the children. When you're next out, with time to sit and ponder, watch the children! Watch the children! Listen to them laugh. Listen to them chattering to their parents; conversations between parent and child. Then look up the latest figures on child mortality inside Occupied Palestine. Not the figures from the IDF! Not their respective relayers! Instead, consider the figures from the humanitarians.

11th May 2022: Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, shot by member of IDF in the Occupied West Bank.
1st April 2024: 7 World Central Kitchen staff targeted, tracked and systematically murdered inside Gaza Strip via IDF drone strike (x3).
7th September 2024: Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, shot by member of IDF in the Occupied West Bank.
The number of Journalists targeted and murdered by the IDF inside Gaza continues to climb beyond 130.
The number of Aid Workers, Doctors, Nurses murdered by the IDF is currently incalculable.
The USA continues to permit the IDF to investigate all killings inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Israel routinely denies culpability, downplays the immense number of fatalities and wounded.
Israel routinely applies the label of 'Terrorist' to anyone murdered, killed, living or dead, inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as and when suits the Israeli narrative.
Western MSM continues to air the latest propaganda from Israel and the IDF, such that each and every Israeli excuse, lie and obfuscation may be permitted to perpetuate the Israeli/US/Western narrative.
The USA continues to veto every ruling and move undertaken by the International Courts who are attempting to hold Israel to account.
USA, Germany and the UK continue to arm Israel and the IDF, whilst pretending distress at the scale of the murder. Check their smiles in the publicity shots, taken during their tours of Israel.


Presumably, all of these details will be 'off the table' when the Victoria Sponge is sliced.

"Champers, anyone?"

Welcome Home!

The late return of Julian Assange, to his Australian home, was fourteen long years overdue!

It comes as no surprise that the US featured shamefully throughout that time. Down the pecking order, it reflects woefully, upon any pretence at democratic autonomy, also, that the UK did not fare better. That other Western nations defaulted, too readily, to a position of (US) subservience should long since have been raising concerns amongst wider swathes of, especially, the EU than has been, and continues to be, the case.

Breaking down the issue, picking over the finer details, there are organisations who should truly hang their heads in shame! Chief amongst these would be that self-declared bastion of 'free speech,' the Guardian, who were formerly delighted to be able to work in collaboration with Assange and Wikileaks, before spinning about to thoroughly betray the man. During much of Assange's 'illegal' incarceration, having fully relinquished any moral stance, the Guardian often appeared to be bumbling about, uncertain whether the paper should be openly hostile, self-satisfactorily superior, or else to most often pretend that Assange's case was not worthy of its pages. Now that Assange is free maybe the paper will again be looking to realign? The BBC, with diligent and selective use of its new 'fact check' baby- and its regular pool of on-hand 'experts' and spokespeople- has too often chosen to fall neatly into compliance. In the Land of the Editor the investigative journalist becomes effectively defunct.

Alan Rusbridger becomes Katharine Viner and the deck is quietly (and thoroughly) shuffled!

We should expect no MSM 'observations' into how perfectly Julian's long-overdue release ties in with Israel's ongoing Genocide. For anyone who has viewed the infamous helicopter footage parallels with Israel's slaughter of the innocent must be plain to see. But bewilderingly very seldom, these days, do the client journalists seem 'able,' or prepared, to connect the dots!

In 2010, shocking- although not as surprising as portrayed- images of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, being routinely assassinated by a US Military helicopter was made available to the general public. Further and repeated details, within the thousands of documents leaked, strongly contests that such US slaughter, although not its reportage, has become widespread. The assassins' language seemed to imply that the whole cycle was not much more than some sort of sick game to the killers.

"Light 'em up!"
"Keep shoot'n', keep shoot'n'!"
"All right, hahaha, I hit 'em!"
"Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards!"
"Nice."
"Oh yeah, look at that! Right through the windshield! Haha!"
Ripe from the mouths of its troops, I give you the values of the Leaders of the Free World.'

Why is it, do we suppose, that some nations and their citizens are to be adjudged so 'inferior' to others? With so much news and so very many news images so freely available to so many, via so many outlets, for how much longer will it still be possible for MSM to continue to present the world we inhabit so very differently to its reality?

Whilst Assange is being illegally incarcerated, psychologically deprived and tortured, who gets to determine which is the true crime and who the criminal? What constitutes torture and who gets to deploy its use and to which ends? Who decides what is to be regarded as wholly repugnant and who is guarding whom against its wider enactment?

Again!
Why are some citizens and some nations to be regarded as 'inferior' to others? Expendable?

We should, instead, turn it about to sample the globe through the other end of that adjudicating telescope. MSM have repeatedly demonstrated that the task is neither within their remit, nor their current capabilities.

As did many others, my family tracked Julian Assange's progress- from Belmarsh, via Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, onward and onto Canberra's runway (0737 local time, 27th June 2024). The plea bargain had been struck yet one of the sides has long since depleted any semblance of honour that may once, many years past, have existed. Hence, the thousands who waited with bated breaths.

The cost to Julian Assange's family is US$520,000. Fortunately, those who argued Assange's innocence, demonstrated against his extradition and closely followed his captivity and psychological torture, raised the sum within hours.

The tiny island of Saipan is but one of over 800 US overseas military bases, many situated in countries that do not wish to host them, placs such as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Over 80 other countries have thus been subjugated to the construct of a hidden US Empire. 'How to Hide an Empire,' by Daniel Immerwahr makes quite the read! Leader of the 'Free World,' America would have us believe that China (once again) is the rising threat to global peace and yet- sites may vary- its overseas bases barely number into single figures- Djibouti? Very much the focus of Western MSM, Putin's Russia, with clear and undoubted ambitions for, at the least, major regions of Ukraine, fares little better than does China. 'Overseas airbase' invariably implies 'overseas military airbase.' Further, 'overseas military airbases' are often, necessarily by nature and at least in part, covert, that is to say, they are not widely advertised as such.

There are several nations who have not, in their dealings with the Middle East, covered themselves in glory. But, whether we judge the USA via its Middle Eastern manipulation, its Central American aggression or even its hawkish dealings with its Western, so termed, 'allies,' it is one nation that stands head and shoulders above all others when it comes to invoking global instability!

So, the question: Why is it that some nations have been adjudged less worthy than others? And, a highly credible answer: Because they have, and continue to, show themselves to be so! They have shown themselves to be, in their international exploits, thoroughly repugnant!

Welcome home Julian Assange! It's wonderful to see a bit of positive global news, even if many of those client journalists have tried to pretend the headline is a very different one.

Theatre of Death

In a precision military operation four Palestinian child-hostages have been liberated from IDF cells, in the process of which two-hundred and seventy-four Israelis were killed. Multiple IDF terrorists were eliminated during the exercise. How would the UK's editorial gatekeepers have this hypothetical information relayed to a wider public?

What might be the 'message'- which with absolute certainty would be broadcast via the BBC- delivered by IDF Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari?

The instance never happened. Terrorised Palestinians never possessed the US weaponry with which to undertake such an operation, nor the military might, nor adequate US or UK drone footage, nor military supremacy over Israeli territory. Quite the reverse.

But, if such an incident had transpired, what would the wider population learn of the 'event' via its news media? What would the day's headlines be? US President Joe Biden would be dusted down and wheeled to the podium. What would be his message for Western ears?

Safe to assume, the evening news's imagery would not revolve around the smiling faces of the rescued children, in the grateful arms of their loving families. Reasonable to expect references to the likely unnamed 'four children' to frequently be prefixed by, 'merely,' 'just,' 'as few as,' 'only' or similarly diminutive adverbs or adverbial phrases. Little doubt that the imagery would be about as graphic as deemed editorially 'acceptable.' Each headlining repeat might well be preceded by a warning about the exceptionally graphic nature of the story. The imagery would be pushing at the boundaries of what currently passes for respectability. Licence to once again spread the disproven myth of beheaded babies would reignite.

The headline figure would far more likely be that of '274 Israeli victims.' Perhaps, the majority of news updates might not get so far as to even mention 'rescued children,' electing instead to concentrate upon the death toll and the unduly graphic imagery. Should 'rescued child-hostages' ever be permitted to squeak in the term 'hostages' will have been gleaned, the subject of their 'torture' would not be broached.

Britain's, and the US's ties with the State of Israel would benefit considerably! In a manner out of all proportion to the preceding eight month's Genocidal onslaught. Disproportionate segments of the day's news would be given over to the spokespeople of Israeli Government and the IDF. Daniel Hagari, or another such militia-man, would be afforded significant spotlight, under which to peddle the Israeli myth of, 'the most moral military on the planet.' The term 'Anti-semitism' would once again find itself widely sprayed upon the doubters, the non-lobby journalists, the marchers. Ministerial visits and photo-opportunities would ensue. Flights back and forth from the UK Cypriot base of Akrotiri would multiply. The desire to keep Akrotiri out of MSM headlines would be relaxed, maybe celebrated.

Parliamentary calls to ban Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Genocide marches would intensify! Demands that the language and certain phrases deployed amongst the marchers be legislated against would multiply. British Police Forces would be strongly urged to clamp down upon and further restrict events. Lord Walney, Lord Mann and Margaret Hodge would be booked to appear on TV and radio with increased frequency. Sir Keir Rodney Starmer- who's father was a tool-maker- might, once again, get away with stating that 'cutting off food, water, electricity was acceptable. ** Front bench droids would once again have their bigotry highlighted, unleashed!

Israel 'defending itself' would again be given the green light. Western arms would again flow with open endorsement. The death-toll would again accelerate, be more openly egged (cheered) on in both Houses, the Commons and the Lords.

* But, this did not happen! Instead two-hundred and seventy-four slaughtered Palestinians were routinely displaced by the four rescued Israeli hostages. Viewers were not shown footage of some of the in excess of 700 Israeli casualties being rushed into well-appointed Israeli hospitals, into the care of fully staffed and spotlessly clean wards and theatres, which did not anyway happen. Instead, in the absence of news camera-team footage- denied access by the IDF- imagery was substituted by phone images of sagging ceilings, shattered walls, smashed and trampled equipment, exhausted surgical teams operating upon the victims, ever wary of the next Israeli missile strike, bloodied child victims spread across the floors! David Lammy dons blinkers, once again unrestained!

News of two-hundred and seventy-four, and counting, Palestinian murders will swiftly be usurped with news of the General Election. Your chance to participate in the country's democracy. Which of two captured parties will prove victorious?

The 'game' of Israeli Genocide continues unchecked.

* The Guardian's Kenneth Roth questions the means by which the latest bout of Israeli slaughter was brought about.
** Novara's Polly Smythe has done some digging with regards to Labour's values under Sir Keir Starmer's new look party.

Biden dips a toe into Apartheid.

It has been said that the ICC was created 'to deal with African tin-pot dictators and those like Putin, never to bite the hand that created it.' I paraphrase. So, when the Courts finally ruled that arrest warrants are being sought for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant the rest-of-the-world, behind time, sat up and rubbed at its rheumy eyes. Why, the ICC cannot be there to judge also the Exceptionalist West! The UK Commons was soon blown full of indignation; characters, parodies, who would sit better with Trump's Republicans... or too many of Biden's Democrats. How very dare they!

While deaths pile high!


Hope as it might the US Nation is scarce able to disguise that 'dipped toe.' So instead, its dusty old figurehead defaults to gaslighting, full-blown apartheid... elsewhere, which sort of makes the nation also culpable. Has the ol' dodder missed his footing upon the bank and fully immersed himself? Colonialists, by nature, are best practised at exploiting international borders; so the US has form.

And deaths pile ever higher!


Apartheid was and is dependant upon the premise of racial 'superiority' and segregation. The former nation of South Africa honed and embedded an openly extreme model, reliant, then, upon Western allies in order to operate and to survive. Boldest amongst apartheid's friends was the nation of Israel. When international pressure prevailed and 'friends' fell away, emboldening the country's repressed majority, South African Apartheid's days became numbered. The globe witnessed its eventual demise in the early 1990s. Apartheid's former allies set about realignment and the pretence that they'd never actually endorsed and befriended the racism in the first place, flags were duly waved! Still the system left a stain upon the surface of the planet, or rather the stain, which had always been there, 'for a while' hardened about the African nation. Today the stain has wandered further afield- much like damage from a long-neglected leak, its more widespread contouring tidal marks may not always be immediately evident. But there are also sites of sustained damage, darkening borders, perhaps rust and other decay, perhaps jagged breaks, perhaps festering holes where societal structure has begun to fracture!

Nowhere is that societal fracture more evident than within the rogue state of Israel and being imposed upon the Palestinian Occupied Nation. Much as with former Apartheid South Africa, Israel is heavily dependent upon Western 'allies,' chief amongst these being the good ol' US of A. Yet, the globe is no longer that of the 1990s, it has become far more international; far more reliant upon sales pitch.

And deaths pile ever higher!


The US 'functions' hierarchically, even more so than does the UK: education, health, housing meted out accordingly; whether it be via 'ethnicity,' gender, 'school,' employment, wealth or that curiously amorphous creature, status. Yet Apartheid wields a particularly high (or low) bar! So instead, there substitutes an unspoken premium, a power premium!

Still the deaths pile ever higher!


When the momentous ICC announcement was delivered those lining up to rebuff and to pedal the Apartheid State's lie showed discouragingly bountiful! Yet, internationally respected giants such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, United Nations, African National Congress, Yesh Din, and International Federation for Human Rights, had long since investigated and adjudged Israel to have crossed the Apartheid threshold. Two of those listed operate as Israeli Human Rights organisations, based within Israel's current borders. Two opposing narratives battle for supremacy, one true, one false and enabling Genocide!

Individuals endowed with a power premium slip freely through society, relatively unhindered, whilst the majority citizenship must observe from afar, oft not even be permitted to peek behind the screens, likely blissfully unaware of the widening inequality. When Sunak's time is up he will likely demonstrate his true allegiance to nation, deploying his wealth premium in order to swiftly morph from UK resident to that of US. Much as the more extreme politics of Natalie Cecelia Elphic (OBE) are no barrier to her seamless 'transition' and assimilation within Sir Keir Rodney Starmer's (KCB KC) 'Labour Party.' Much as Luke Akehurst of Labour's NEC may decide to parachute himself into the safe seat of North Durham, where he is currently unknown. Not so much serving democracy as trampling all over and discarding it! Much as David Mencer's transition to Israeli spokesperson sees him so easily jettisoning that same Labour Party. Such individuals pseudo represent us, they pseudo speak upon our behalf, flirting as democrats as and when opportunity best self-serves. Lest we should doubt their integrity the likes of John Zak Woodcock, Baron Walney, crossbench peer and Government’s Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption, is appointed to ensure that only the 'correct' slant of political discourse prevails. Alongside Labour's Margaret Hodge, the former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, funded by that same nation, last managed to squeak a visit there in January 2024. The lobby group has deeply infiltrated the 'democratic' British Labour Party yet remains most cagey about from whence the funding comes.

Whilst the deaths continued to pile ever higher!


They may not always present well- honesty catches and burns in their throats- yet their premium sees them slip from role to role. Formerly 'committed' Labour man and Head of Labour friends of Israel, glides across continents, a new platform awaits. A parody of even himself, Mencer presents to the globe as the worst kind of apologist. One moment the man 'embraces' British Labour the next it is full-blown Israeli Apartheid. He makes entirely the same noises as he always has.

Whilst Palestinian deaths pile ever higher!


Mencer has adopted the role of useful idiot across continents. His petulant narration runs counter purpose. Even so he has played but a tiny part in the West's gradual conversion. So when University Campuses burst forth with peace encampments, much like spring flowers- Camps for Palestine blossoming across the West.- those who steer the West's MSM are not best pleased. Israeli, British and US bombs must continue to boost the infant death-tolls, the Zionists froth.

When masked mobs attacked the UCLA Peace Camp US Police stepped back and left the Zionists and other thugs to it for two hours before belatedly intervening. The attack, far in excess of any non-violent student actions, featured sticks and bats, and fireworks deployed as small munitions. Why, it was almost as if orders had been received prior to the first blow. US Police, notoriously hands on, simply stood back to observe, not quite yet reflecting the far more extreme IDF, standing back and permitting Israeli Colonists to attack and destroy long overdue supplies entering Gaza. Weaponising and enabling famine and disease!

Behind the curve, the link is to the BBC site. It has inexplicably taken months and tens of thousands of innocent deaths for the Corporation to finally start to dig into the live-streamed Genocide! This is the same BBC that so swiftly and obediently fell into line with '40 beheaded babies,' then, opted for silence over any form of retraction and correction, when it transpired, once and once again, that the IDF were lying.

Whilst Infant deaths pile ever higher!


When the ICC and ICJ were founded the UK assisted in laying the first stones, and yet... and yet... and yet... It seems evident that, at their infancy, the nation could not have anticipated that the Courts should ever be turned against one of the founding fathers. As colonialists, fast coming to recognise the global worth of legacy, both the ICJ and ICC were initially laid as means to not only order the globe but also, more covertly, as a means to organise and to discipline those other nations.

It had mattered not that Balfour's gift of a homeland had been fully occupied for centuries. The colonial nation's role was surely to order and to organise the lesser nations. Read my rules and know that the world is now better by my decree! But, for heaven's sake, do not think to interpret and deploy those same rules in any wider context! Do not compel the globe's great bully recourse to the humiliation of a full-blown hissy fit!

"Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region," a younger Biden once boasted! He might well have added, 'and continue to arm it to the teeth!' And, 'to seek to always draw a veil over the worst of its transgressions!' Then, 'to establish a hierarchy of racism!' Then, 'to establish a hierarchy of life-worthiness!' 'To the tune of countless thousands of innocents, children, infants!' 'Them and us!' Wrong-footed, eye off the ball, Biden thought to dip a toe, stumbled and grabbed at the nearest idiot. A NATO chain reaction ensued!

Whilst Infant deaths continue to pile!


It transpires that Israel has been hacking and threatening the ICC, ICJ and its members for nearly a decade. Little surprise that Israel is no friend to the ICC and ICJ. Thus far the US and UK have increasingly shown themselves stanchly unprepared to seek the moral higher ground, where toes are more easily kept dry.

If rulings from the International Courts are not respected and safeguarded at this juncture how will their authority serve when the welly is on the other foot?

Going, Going, Gone!

Whenever one finds oneself watching and/or listening to the UK Health Secretary, the Right Honourable Whoever- or the one before that, or the one before that, or the one before that, or the one before that, or the one before that, or the one before that, but let's stick with this one (4th September 2012- 9th July 2018) for the present, - one finds that it is but simple child's play to generate alarmingly high levels of quite visceral hatred. In the mix, one may encounter some highly unpleasant characters. Highly unpleasant! Arguably, one could venture back a deal further, or indeed presume to project forwards. But, let's stick with where this paragraph has taken us, the Right Honourable Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt.

'Visceral hatred!' That's significant, right? When I taught I would occasionally pick up certain children for their application of the term 'hatred. I'd try to explain that such a powerful reponse was inveriably far too extreme for such as a peanut butter sandwich, or a particular song, or football team- surely 'dislike,' or even 'strongly dislike' would invariably suffice. Surely. 'Hatred' is a value to attribute only in extreme circumstances, and often not even then, I'd try to convince. But, on the other hand, Jeremy Hunt was the Conservative Health Secretary for the best part of six years. He 'served' under both May and Johnson, in three different government incarnations, each of of them looking to impose greater cuts upon the health of the nation's families, each incarnation looking to impose its own particular brand of austerity.

Hunt was there when George Osborne (pal of Ed Balls) first brandished the sword of 'austerity' upon the public. He was there when the outcome of his government's preparedness for a 'potential' pandemic (Exercise Cygnus) was compiled and duly covered up. Hunt was the Health Secretary who ignored Cygnus's recommendations. He's no longer Health Secretary but he's still there or thereabouts- now he's Chancellor (14th October 2022, under Truss and now Sunak). Surely more in an ironic sense than otherwise, he has been labelled as 'one of the grown-ups.' Presented as such by such as those at the BBC. Hunt is both a deserving recipient of the term 'hatred,' as he is deserving of a far more sustained condemnation. But, here, he is merely the prelude. Neither is he 'broken,' instead he breaks others and other things. And yet he's extremely well practiced at ensuring that his own projection through life remains anything but broken. During his tenure as Culture Secretary (2010- 2012), Hunt bypassed the Competition Commission with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation attempted takeover of BSkyB, forging closer ties with Uncle Rupert yet breaking things for so many others- something of a trait?

This post is about another of the things he has helped to break, our NHS. The findings are not scientifically compiled, they are, instead, anecdotal, concerned with a single eight hour visit to A&E in Norwich. Nor do these findings include the current headlining, 'contaminated blood,' outrage, although findings from this inquiry very much endorse the overall contention. Jeremy Hunt would have been very much 'involved' with this too! Neither should we permit the term 'anecdotal' to soften any condemnation- gathering data with which to damn the man would generate a far longer post and require far too much editing.

The night of the Northern Lights pain became so intense that I found myself unable to lie in bed, unable to sit, unable to stand, unable to cease with the foul language! When a lift to the Norfolk and Norwich initially proved equally untenable I limped outside to await an ambulance and to gaze up into the midnight sky- even in the city the heavens were lighting up. Up to five hours to appreciate the spectacular, we were informed. The sky showed tints of both purple and green. The pain was a more intense white! Most definitely, it was white! I assumed an approximation of a plank as we readied for a second attempt. Who knew there were quite so many speed bumps and potholes? Darker skies offered greater promise outside A&E and yet the hobble from car to entrance was due south, agony rest-stops instead devoted to suppression of pain, back to the Lightshow. Adjacent to the sliding entrance the screaming woman had the full attentions of several of the security staff.

Ambulatory was 'encouragingly' half as full as on a previous occasion. Other aspects of the 'visit' remained of undetermined concern. Attendees drifted, confused, unsure as to precisely where to deposit notes compiled upon arrival, careful not to step upon or trip over the child curled upon the floor. I declined either of the seats offered- one accompanying partner, one adult chaperone. I took up position, leaning into a wall, forehead resting against, set to alternating weight upon left or right foot. Stepping upon the spot, breathing!

A rare white coat drifted past. Was there music? Bodies twisted into chairs, dozed, stared vacantly, or else tried to kill time by chatting, subdued. Whether there was music or not regular announcements gradually became imprinted upon the subconscious: 'Neither physical nor verbal violence would be tolerated, offenders ejected and refused 'further' treatment,' 'The NHS team was a happy positive one, working towards everyone's betterment, recruiting now lest anyone was interested,' 'Pain relief could be readily acquired via one of the circulating members of staff,' of which there appeared to be very few, 'Those arriving by ambulance were not being prioritised over others.' It transpired that pain relief was of the Paracetamol variety, thus of limited worth, most patients either similarly or better equipped!

At some indeterminate time groaning from one highly distressed male- obscured from view- became evident, evidently without suitable pain relief. Later the groaning was accompanied by that of an, also unseen, female.

Twice I wandered outside to view the Lights, undignified upon the second return. Another distraction from the waiting. Questions ventured tended to illicit "can't" more often than not. Keepers of the pills were singularly miserly.

At some point whilst it was still dark outside I was wheeled to 'Radiology' for an x-ray. "Tuesday's MRI will reveal more!" Nothing broken... except to observe that very much is. A single squirt of opioid finally provided the pain relief some six-and-a-half hours late. An additional suppository was less gratefully received, just about enough to make the drive home viable. Another hour and the keeper of the pills handed over a pack of 12 suppositories. "What you really require is a pain management package." "We can't hand out opioids at A&E."

The Northern Lights had faded with the early light of dawn. We were half-an-hour shy of meeting the ambulance crew, our caretaker having only just finished dissuading them from forcing entry. One wonders how the call will be logged. In fewer than forty-eight hours my GP would finally relent and prescribe those keenly sought opioids!

Did I feel valued? How likely would I be to recommend the service to someone else? Is this an unofficial recruitment drive for private health insurance? Subscriptions of which are soaring! What does Wes Streeting have in store?

* Tuesday's MRI at the Global Clinic involved no crowds, no groaning, no children curled upon the floor, no eight hour waiting, no hollowed out faces, no wandering confusees. No indeterminate puddle under the seats. Wonder how much my appointment will've cost the NHS?

Another St George's Day Masacre!

Fittingly, it was St George's Day (2024) that saw the Prefect Prime Minister- demonstrably not the Perfect PM- ushering in the UK's new 'defence' spending, (to be) hiked to 2.5% GDB by 2030- six years hence. Wreathed in Union Jack requisite to the post, Sunak battled to insert the tiniest ounce of sincerity, proclaiming that the globe is now at its "most dangerous... since the end of the Cold War." "Fully funded, with no increase in borrowing or debt," well, not the nature of any 'debt' with which Sunak's tax-efficient family are ever likely to have to concern themselves.

Ben Wallace, on the BBC, was performatively beside himself with glee. Cost in mind, will be "fully funded," was put to the former Defence Secretary. But, true to his ilk, Wallace barely broke stride, musing that 'the pledge' might require yet further public spending cuts. The UK is not, as of this moment, upon a war footing, both Sunak and Wallace were keen to outline. Conversation followed predictable lines, flowing fair seamlessly into the EU's NATO commitments. At no point did a US accent venture forth, at no time did the overseer's fatherly head loom above the parapet, nor did it need to.

The sense of security, of which both Tories spoke, becomes vanishingly distant. The mighty US's slipstream, ever deepening, produces quite the shadow to match these days. It would not be unrealistic to recognise Sunak's referenced threat, though better observed reasoning might contest the route taken. Starmer searched in vain for his absent soul- ever the fruitless task- manufacturing a most God-awful Saint's Day charade. The Guardian Newspaper published a more considered article upon St George's Day and the nation's worth, by the former Head of the Labour Party. Related yet more ear-catching, the BBC has recently commissioned a BBC Radio 4 series, 'When It Hits the Fan.' The series is quite the ear opener! Also broadcast on St George's Day, it featured a half-hour conversation with Matthew Freud that seriously- barely short of citing specific instances- put both news outlets to shame. Freud may well have openly traced the source of decline back to dear ol' Uncle Rupert but his damning of current UK journalism was deservingly thorough and widespread, on this occasion biting also at the hand.

Back on the subject of defence spending, neither Sunak nor his minion was pressed to elaborate upon quite how much more dangerous the globe has become in consequence of the nation's funding of Saudi Arabia's bombing of Yemen, nor it's continued funding of the Gazan Genocide. Nor was either man asked to comment specifically upon the UK's lapdog partisan conflagration in the Red Sea and Yemen- no reflection required! Nor was the UK's complicit starving of Palestinians, via cuts to UNWRA funding, broached. Nor its continuation of the arming of Israel and the IDF. Along with the biggest bully, the UK is now fully immersed in the Genocide! Arming the perpetrators. Shackling those who seek to curtail the suffering. Pretending to balance evidence of mounting war crimes against the latest Israeli apologist! Obfuscation around the genocide! Little wonder that certain UK politicians are so very wary of the ICJ?

In order, the three news items that followed, hot on the heels, may have raised many eyebrows, many shackles! Each could be linked, more closely than through monies alone.

Next came the flag-waving pronouncement that the first Rwanda flights were booked and warming upon the tarmac. So, when those betrayed souls who have been granted asylum here find themselves still to be marched up the boarding steps, will we UK citizens be permitted to question quite how the UK's commitments towards the Refugee Convention will be defending those asylum-seekers; those who have been granted protection within the 'safe' country sought? Presumably, UK militia will, in future, be expected to work at the behest of a government that is in breach of international law, more than it will be required to defend the human rights of citizens within the UK? Curious. Must our safety, henceforth, to be so very dependent upon our neighbour's jeopardy?

Then came the continuation of the Post Office saga, injustices meted out to the Postmaster-generals! High Management lining up to worm their ways from the spotlight of culpability, demonstrably also not defending the rights of the citizenry!

Next upon a conveyor-belt of values the UK's militia may be tasked with defending came the UK's waterways and all that they stand for! Could it be that, unbeknownst to us, water companies have been charged with laying down an encircling slick, through which all those (not) illegal asylum-seekers may find themselves having to swim, or wade? Further addition to the pledged 2.5%! 'To discharge or not to discharge?' that has become the question.

One may be forgiven for, perhaps, wondering quite what the UK's militias will actually be charged with defending? And along who's borders? It doesn't seem to be us or, in any manner, upon our behalf. Are those bells, I hear?

St George, of course, was far more Middle Eastern than ever he was British. We could speculate as to who might, with a modern day twist, be represented by the dragon... and who might be aiding and abetting this dragon.

Which Hoop Next, Please?

When Israel, yet, yet and yet again, targeted aid workers- it could as readily have been medics, teachers, children, pregnant mothers, journalists, innocent civilians of many hues- the BBC was almost beside itself with... (?) Completing the sentence proves quite a challenge. 'Topographagnosia' might almost fit the bill, yet topographagnosia implies that there might be a suitable route from this quagmire. Perhaps 'inadequacy,' again, almost works? But, in truth, nothing quite does.

The BBC is but one amongst many to have backed itself into a corner. The flag behind which it has elected to operate has been torn asunder and the corporation lies now butt naked before the nation, and the wider globe! The Conservatives are exactly where one would expect, no change there! The Guardian, formerly a paper of 'certain' values, has thoroughly defecated the nest! The Labour Party has, many believe, shamed itself and betrayed its membership and its values, to an even greater degree. Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would almost be able to continue on as before, almost. It is merely his given inability to commit to something- to anything- that rather now finds (most of) the Parliamentary Labour Party in its very own category, 'without label.' Other MSM outlets range somewhere betwixt the BBC's 'inadequacy,' and that of the nation's more reactionary sites. That being, without platform to comment.

Topographagnosia is the inability to recognise salient environmental stimuli. One can observe that it does not quite fit the Corporation, rather it (almost) fits the current face of the BBC, as of Wednesday 3rd April, two days after the Israeli targeting of three separate World Central Kitchen vehicles. The 'current face' being that which the BBC wishes to hide behind, if the nation continues to permit it so to do.

Reeves, of Starmer's Labour, has said the Tory Government should publish any legal advice it has received regarding the selling of (yet more) military arms to (the rogue nation of) Israel. Sir Alan Duncan has 'strongly condemned Israel's killing of seven (more) aid workers. Channel Four's Krishnan Guru-Murthy has made easily one of the better shows, amongst a shamefully poor media reaction, when he almost lost his cool in conversation with Israel's (for the present) David Mencer- the list of Israeli monsters who are prepared to sell what once may have resembled a soul seems almost endless. Mencer, for those who have not yet recognised the face, was formerly head of Labour (UK) Friends of Israel. He has gone straight from Labour (UK) to a position of more blatant Israeli lobbying but, to point this out, would likely be labelled as anti-Semitic, even though it is fact. Feinberg, White House National Security Spokesman, has ventured so very far as to describe the targeted attack upon WCK as a "possible mistake." Wow! Even forensic Starmer, himself, has not gone quite so far as to re-state, 'I do think that Israel has that right.'

In the same time frame Israel has also targeted the Iranian Embassy in Syria. The rogue nation's imagined license to lay siege to a widening range of targets grows more assumed by the day. How far the globe now finds itself from having to re-imagine an attack upon any Western site seems ever more slender! Three of the latest Gazan casualties are British; is the globe any longer so very far from Israel presuming license now to eliminate anyone with whom it disagrees, anywhere! Except, maybe, the mighty US of A. Perhaps, we are fast approaching the state of play whereupon we could (almost) guarantee that an Israeli 'act' upon 'British' soil would find a couple of apologists within UK government? Perhaps?

But, back to the BBC. 3rd April saw the Corporation tying itself into ugly knots, with an insultingly misleading, contention, 'how could Israel have made such a mistake?' The indignant Krishnan Guru-Murthy proved unprepared to countenance such blatant naivety. Truth is, it's all rather too late! The rogue state has too often been given license and cover for its Genocidal acts! Pedalling back from here now seems almost impossible. Whatever route the UK (and other enabling states) elects for the move it's bound to present as ugly!

As of 9th April the BBC seemed to be going with the line, 'how could such a mistake have been allowed to happen?' The 'news' item that I caught preceded a very lengthy and almost uninterrupted monologue by yet another IDF spokesperson. Enabling. Of one detail we can be sure: the action was not a mistake!

As even self-proclaimed Israeli apologists have recently been heard to utter, 'It now seems likely/possible that three British aid workers have just been killed with UK produced/armed missiles.'

* Added on 11th: Upon an obliquely related issue, the UK is also failing to meet its global climate obligations, as of COP 28 (30 November to 12 December 2023). So, with a clear mind as where the political UK stands with regards to integrity, honesty, humanity and all that is half-decent, I have written to Lord Cameron to make a suggestion that his government doubles up on its military flights to Palestine/Israel by packing both arms and aid onto the same aircraft. I hope he recognises irony when he encounters it- he doesn't seem to recognise Genocide!

Lies, Lies, and Colonialism

Humankind has waved-off previous messages, winging out into the wide black yonder. Both Voyager missions had on board a variety of examples of humankind's historical and other achievements, as well as selected images that might best convey a sense of wonder for what the planet has achieved. There were messages in many different languages, music through the ages- quite what extra terrestrials will make of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?- and various images, mostly photographs. There's a Chinese dinner party, a factory interior, the Great Wall of China, an X-ray of a human hand, rush hour traffic in Thailand. On 21st March the BBC were light-heartedly discussing what should or could be sent upon the next mission. I think the programme was PM, some time shortly after 17:00; two women- one scientist, one stand-up comic, who may well have been Josi Long *- were in agreement that 'other' things should be included, not merely a selection of humanity's best!

One of the pair said, 'Some of humanity's worst.' The other ventured, 'More every-day stuff- children's doodles, not just high art.' I think it was the comedian who suggested, 'Elon Musk's Twitter/X thread. 'The general message seemed to be that just sending the very best, or the more functional, really wasn't an accurate cross-section of humanity, nor humanity's impact upon the wider planet. The short discussion remained very gentle, nothing too controversial for the BBC!

There is now a considerable collection of, shall we term them, 'concerns,' piling up for the entire global ecosystem. There has been much talk of regulation of AI of late, the latest upon a growing list. Another, far less often broached, therefore minor, item has been the idea, held by some non-academics, that there might be risk attached to drawing attention to the richness of our home planet; we may not be the only species currently searching out amongst the stars, for other 'suitable and life-supporting' planets. Academics have countered with the observation that any species capable of deciphering the thousands of messages, also of traversing such wide expanses, will likely already be well ahead of the curve, well in advance of 'our' curve!.

Concerning humanity's current Earthbound trajectory, given that chances of extraterrestrial 'contact' may happen as distantly as millions of years into an uncertain future, whence trajectories might again converge, there must be a more than even chance that any eventual visitors are likely to be met by a planet uncluttered with the human species.

Regardless, Voyager(s) has been furnished with information designed to present the Earth and its self-appointed ruling species in a positive light. So, even the opening premise turns out to have been based upon a contradiction. Rather 'farmers as guardians of the countryside' extrapolated to encompass an entire planet. That is to state, more bluntly, that it is based upon a lie! A gentler slant might argue that it is 'based upon a current lie.' Humanity is ever boastful of its unmet aspirations, ever in denial of its failings, capable of such creativity, such wanton destruction!

Without need to search through the entirety of Voyager's greetings we may assume that mention of humankind's thirst for war will have been omitted. Neither, that messaging will have boasted about the more sinister uses to which humankind's advanced technologies are, so often, devoted- 'Here we are, armed to the teeth!,' or perhaps, 'Behold, hatred for our fellow beings!' Not quite, 'Welcome, come in peace!'

Is it a sort of arrogance that argues humankind it's self-appointed status of home superiority, an assumption, an oversight? Is it likely that any more-advanced extraterrestrial species will want to break bread with humankind that devotes quite so much time to atomising its fellow beings?

26th March, BBC early evening news was eager to show, and to interview, RAF flight personnel preparing to deliver much needed aid packages to Gaza. Flights were being permitted the most minute 'window,' within which to operate. A huge pat upon the back for the RAF! Interviewees spoke of a need to target the drop very precisely along the southern coast, so as not to cause yet further casualties amongst desperate Palestinians. Bizarrely, neither RAF personnel, nor BBC reporting, seemed aware that the RAF has been undertaking regular flights, via Cyprus, delivering unacknowledged items to Israel, for these past months. I doubt there will be room for evidence of such misinformation aboard the next Voyager flight.

Immured in faux-communication, the UK and the BBC prides itself upon drawing attention to specific instances of hypocrisy. No site, other than the BBC, prides itself more upon its tenacious thirst for honesty, when exposing overseas injustice, some injustices, some regimes. ''BBC Verify' is dedicated to examining the facts and claims behind a story to try to determine whether or not it's true.' They'll be able to tell the listener that aid flights to Gaza really did happen. 'They'll be fact-checking, verifying video, countering disinformation, analysing data and - crucially - explaining complex stories in the pursuit of truth.' They'll be able to inform the listener that the UK has backed calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But will they be able, or prepared, to verify whether the RAF continues to service both advertised flights, as well as those of a more covert nature, at the behest of Israel? Will BBC Verify weigh up whether the UK cutting off aid to UNWRA is enabling Israel to kill yet more Palestinian children than the UK finally voting for a ceasefire at the UN is likely to save? Dear BBC, which snippets of information, do you consider, should the globe place aboard the next Voyager mission?

Maybe, begin with a touch of introspection?

* apologies to Josi Long, if it was indeed you.

Blood Language, the Abuse Thereof?

There is currently a confluence of contrasting currents, one more angry and dangerous, another niggling away at the former. Meanwhile the ocean rages, threatening to subsume an entire nation! Where to look? What to say?

Genocide rages over Gaza! A Genocidal current that narrative dictates we may not yet observe for what it plainly is. Genocide! Journalists, doctors, farmers, bakers, grandmothers, mothers, newborn babies, men, women and children wiped from the land! Buried under rubble, torn apart, atomised by UK enabled missiles, ruptured, frozen, dehydrated, starved, consumed by disease! But, do watch what you dare to observe or to say, lest you should make another 'uncomfortable!'

The road to understanding is paved with narrative that we might better grasp the world within which we reside. Tread carefully lest you should misstep! Circumvent those deep pools of anti-Semitic Trope. Careful, MSM determines from which angle one is permitted to observe. Or, at least, the manner in which one may speak of one's observations. Such is the ragged curtain behind which nations seek to hide an ongoing Genocide!

Recent Christmas saw Marks and Spencer swiftly remove one of its seasonal adverts. To the 'innocent' potential consumer the image simply disappeared- one day it was there, the next 'poof!' to be replaced by another. To the curious, not only was it removed, its removal was followed by a carefully penned apology to the 'Jewish community.' Turned about-face the mere targeting of any apology to a homogenous , quote, 'Jewish community' might, in and of itself, wrench forth yet another bended-knee apology. But, it wasn't and it didn't. The fireside image with the 'offensive' flame was swiftly esponged and Marks and Spencer penned its obedient apology and jumped back into line.

The cited 'offense' was that the candle flame borrowed 'shamefully' from the Palestinian flag, thus potentially threatening the shop's Jewish customers, making some of them feel 'unsafe,' allegedly. Or not? Likely, not! The offending flame might, instead, have born too close a resemblance to the Indian flag, thus threatening the store's Pakistani customers, but no! No such complaint was levelled. Most of MSM chose to let the news slip under its radar. Thankfully, no such blue flame upon white background was removed otherwise Hell might have rained down upon the store!

An anti-Semitic moment averted. Except, it wasn't for two very clear reasons. Firstly, the flame wasn't based upon the Palestinian flag. Secondly, the Palestinian flag is a nation's flag and not an anti-Semitic symbol! But Marks and Spencer complied anyway.

Post Christmas witnessed University of East Anglia's campus quietly grubbing out all of its Red Robin bushy evergreen shrubs. Although no injuries had been recorded the Vice Chancellor's office allegedly reported that 'students' had been tripping over the shrubs- not any other shrubs, just those very specific ones. Quickly, they were removed and no more was said. As far as I'm aware, no instances of anti-Semitic planting were cited- as far as I'm aware.

One could argue that the act of removing all of UEA's Red Robin bushy evergreen shrubs remains entirely outside of the anti-Semitism topic of debate; one could. Except the university- ideally, a seat of rigorous and wholesome debate, upon a whole wealth of topics- has form. That is to observe that it's senior management team do. On 12th March 'Concrete,' the University's 'official student newspaper,' offered this story on page 3: "Deep concern" expressed over UEA antisemitism statement." The opening paragraphs rather echo the sentiment of the headline. Vice Chancellor David Maguire was quoted, "In recent days we have sadly witnessed a rise in instances of antisemitism across our community, including graffiti on our campus walls, comments made during a university event, and inappropriate comment made on social media. This is unacceptable and we are taking action to ensure that perpetrators are dealt with swiftly." The VC goes on to explain that there could be a, "police investigation," laying out that, "The comments made do not reflect the views of the University and do not meet our values." If one reads to the end of the whole page article there is more balance but it is not until the seventh paragraph that use of the label 'antisemitism' is, in any way, challenged. In fairness to the Senior News Writer, Jamie Bryson, the article does go on to cite various counter arguments, including an elaboration upon 'From the river to the sea.' But not until seven paragraphs in do we break away from the thrust of the VC, the "intimidatory" and "antisemitic" thrust from the senior team.

There is a photograph, '29,000 Gazans Killed.'
Other instances of graffiti are listed:
'Zionism = Colonialism'
'Judaism opposes Zionism'
'End Apartheid; 26 journalists killed in Gaza'
'(UEA) Banks with Barclays- finances genocide of the Palestinian people'
'Macron, Sunak and Trudeau war criminals'
And a quote from the late Nelson Mandela:
"Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."


None of which appears as anti-Semitic. One might take issue with the number of Gazans and journalists killed, both statements significantly understating the death toll. Barclays does fund the genocide, through multiple ties with culpable arms manufactures. One merely has to listen to any from a list of significant political figures from inside Israel to understand that the Zionist colonial project continues at haste! The cited Presidents and PM have all argued for the continued funding of Israel and the IDF, despite those nations' massive demonstrations against further funding of the Genocide. If anyone who has observed even a tiny fraction of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is not moved, perhaps to anger, then one could readily question their humanity. We could debate but would any such conversation also need to comply with the values of senior management and the VC?

A week past, two Conservative apologies and two Conservative payouts made the small-time news. Firstly, during one round of University Challenge, Christ Church- Oxford's Ms Gorgianeh was wrongly accused of displaying the colours of the Palestinian flag alongside one of the most anti-Semitic tropes, the 'evil' blue octopus, except she wasn't doing either! The accusing Tory peer, Baroness Jacqueline Foster, paid £15,000 in damages and carefully penned her apology. Thing is, she didn't just make the accusation, Baroness Foster also demanded that Ms Gorgianeh be immediately expelled for supporting Hamas, and that she be arrested! Secondly, Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan accused Professor Kate Sang, Herriot-Watt University, of expressing sympathy for Hamas. Donelen's unfounded allegations went further in demanding UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) cut its ties to the academic as well as to colleague Dr Kamma Patel. Suspensions were immediate, as the Institute 'carried out' its investigations. MP Donelan has apologised and agreed to pay an undisclosed sum via the taxpayer, that's you and me! UK academic society, riddled with anti-Semitism! Except, it isn't!

Any coincidence with which both wrong accusations were levelled, following so very hot on the heels of statement(s) made by Policy Exchange, should lead the observer to conclude that either Government Ministers respond to the directions of Policy Exchange with trigger-happy abandon, or else they may be responding to 'other obligations.' Careful, anti-Semitism trap lies in wait!

From his GB News temple of 'truth' and 'dignity,' Nigel Farage has accused Jeremy Corbyn of subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory... There is a pattern emerging here!

Not only are Israel and the IDF armed to the teeth- weapons care of the UK and US, via Cyprus- narrative will now readily and shamelessly deploy the whole deck. Blood Libel has been levelled! Used by the Times of Israel to debunk the internationally accepted belief that Israel intentionally targeted a Gazan Hospital. Which, of course, Israel did! Since the claim of the targeted attack Israel and the IDF, or the Times of Israel, whoever, rarely refers back to the initial strike! Swiftly moving on, Israel next spoke of huge Hamas infrastructure needing to be targeted. Hastening onward, when this also proved unfounded. Now, no hospitals are left that have not been targeted by Israeli fire. Now the IDF are involved in the torture of hospital staff. Where might this 'accusation' fall? There is already footage circulating. Another accusation of anti-Semitism in the barrel! What unGodly depravities remain in the IDF arsenals? Will these also transpire to be US and UK enabled? Anti-Semitic Tropes cited! Right there!

Curiously, there is a full Israeli-narrative-complient Team to conduct the BBC et al through an entire lexicon. Which member of the IDF shall we ask, which member of the Israeli Government? Or, in tight reserve, the Telegraph's political correspondent, the Spectator's Katy Balls, the Sun's Harry Cole? One of many from a number, signatories of the October Declaration! Where's cuddly Mel? And, lest you should consider voicing your absolute horror at any of these multiple Crimes of Genocide there's always Government Adviser on Political Violence, Lord Walney. Or Baron Mann, of Holbeck Moor, Government Advisor on Anti-Semitism. Or Baron Austin of Dudley. Careful! Blood Libel! Right there!

Amidst weaponised disease, amidst weaponised starvation US President Biden is planning to build a port on the coast of Gaza, wholly compliant to Israeli President Netanyahu's very precise stipulations. What will the tide wash in? Should be ready in about two months. As certain Americans do so love to tell the globe, 'You do the math!'

Hidden behind Fact.

Working at the avant garde of national and international 'journalism,' the BBC (15th February) headlined with the shocking news that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have risen by 589% since the Hamas attack of 7th October 2023. 'Brave journalists' (Harriet Sherwood) at the Guardian went with the same day headline, 'Huge rise in antisemitic abuse in UK since Hamas attack, says charity.' The referenced charity is the Community Security Trust (CST), tasked with monitoring anti-Jewish abuse and attacks and providing security for UK Jewish communities. CST went on to cite the 7th October attack as a "trigger event."

The Guardian reporter dipped a toe, twice referencing 'something' vaguely labelled as 'subsequent war.' We must presume that this aside (subsequent war) is one and the same series of War Crimes, the enabled slaughter of tens of thousands of innocents, the ECJ recently described as "plausible Genocide!' I listened to the BBC Radio 4 'news' report, several times on the day, which repeatedly neglected to draw upon any other possible triggering event, subsequent or prior to 7th October. Listeners were led to conclude that 7th October was, not merely the 'trigger event' but, more specifically, a wholly isolated 'trigger event.' No reference, by either party, was made to the recent ICJ hearing at the Hague.

With headlines contrived to shock the nation one might deduce the sole incident specifically described in the Guardian report to be at the more extreme end of all those 'anti-Semitic incidents.' "A vehicle with a Palestinian flag attached, and with the occupant shaking their fist in the air through an open window, had driven past a synagogue in Hertfordshire." Opting to cite no examples the BBC was content to go with the road-tested, non-specific wording, 'anti-Semitic' incidents. Obediently EHRC compliant.

The day after (16th February) the headline news became the death of Alexei Navalny. Most reports on 16th were pointing the finger at Putin, to which we were likely being invited to sagely nod our agreement. Much has passed, in recent years, to suggest that Navalny's death is unlikely to have occurred 'unprovoked.' He did, after all, presented as a well and fit middle-aged male fewer that 24 hours previously. Deaths inside Russia, or inside of Russian political reach, happen far too often in Putin's favour to always be mere happenstance. Even in the absence of ultimate proof, Putin's regime seems most likely to warrant the blame.

Incontrovertible proof may forever remain elusive yet, most persuasively, one more crime might now be tacked upon Putin's lengthening list of pending War Crimes. Maybe, just maybe, Navalny did die of a heart attack but there are many, many causal interventions that may hasten such an attack, such as Novichok poisoning or sustained beatings- also denied by the Russian leader. (Western) political figures are eager to search out the spotlight and to roundly condemn Putin, to impose sanctions, to pin terms such as 'Genocide.' Maybe we should reserve a place second in line at the ICC, the Hague?

The (Western) message is clear, Putin is neither a leader to be trusted, nor is he likely to be beneficial to Global betterment! What's to be disputed? Well, nothing really...

Two news headline items. If we wanted to labour the point pending, we might next shine a light upon Kemi Bandenoch's condemnation of Henry Staunton. It's not so much that the stories aren't newsworthy, more it's what they're not doing and what they're not saying!

Concerning the 'shocking' news that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have increased 589%, the story was more shocking by virtue of what the report elected not to cover than what it elected to dwell upon. In May 2022 I walked to Cinema City in Norwich to view Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawaf's gut-wrenching 'Eleven Days in May.' I mention this because the days inside Gaza that the film documents precede 7th October 2023 by almost thirty months. Neither the BBC, which did not even acknowledge the film's existence, nor the Guardian, which did, just, elected to refer to the documented deaths of all the Palestinian children murdered by Israeli targeted missile strikes during those eleven days as a 'trigger event.' Nor has either 'news' team opted to dwell upon the recent ICJ ruling that 'plausible Genocide' is ongoing inside Gaza and the West Bank.

It will be interesting, more horrifying, to see, in the years to come, how the ICJ adjudges the roles of the UK and it's political master, the US of A, in their support for Israeli conducted Genocide. Anyone who has braved the harrowing footage of Israel's attacks, and consequent celebrations inside Gaza's borders (South Africa's collected evidence), will be under no illusions. An Israeli orchestrated Genocide is happening! Take the trouble to find out what has transpired inside of Occupied Palestine and one is given to conclude that 'triggering events'- ongoing since 1948 (or 1967)- occur so frequently as to trace an unbroken history of the lands. In such light "A vehicle with a Palestinian flag attached, and with the occupant shaking their fist in the air through an open window, had driven past a synagogue in Hertfordshire," might be argued to be an understandable reaction, perhaps even an underreaction? At worst, maybe, misdirected. If a similar incident, substituting the Ukrainian flag, was to occur outside of a Russian orthodox church much of the UK's media would report the incident as a natural reaction; these same outlets are eager to bypass international ruling and to name Russia's actions inside Ukraine as War Crimes, maybe even Genocide. This is way beyond inconsistent?

But, that's not even the point here being made. UK's MSM seems eager to jump the gun regarding Putin's Russia. The BBC is asking the question, 'Is Russia committing Genocide?' whilst continuing to pretend that there is not another and far greater crime being orchestrated elsewhere- orchestrated with the aid of £millions in UK weaponry! Where is the consistency?

Upon the second news item, the death- almost certainly the murder- of Alexei Navalny, headlines were proving similarly slippery. Alexei Navalny, with known white supremacist associates, did not wish, nor did he deserve, to die. Russia deserves better and Navalny could have done no worse. MSM rightly mourned his death yet they also sought to work with it. Death is not yet redeemable but reputation, rightly or less so, may yet flourish!

Navalny's Family and the Russian nation may still benefit. But, chief amongst those yet hoping to steer the narrative would be the good ol' US of A and its subject nations. Putin remains both monster and distraction. Globally however, he is not such a stand-alone threat as may be painted. The US of A currently operates something in excess of 1,000 overseas military (capacity) bases. Russia operates maybe a dozen. Overseas military campaigns are similarly skewed in the US's favour- pick a continent and they are there, imposing, dictating! One might go so far as to list the UK as one of the State's more covert projects, certainly its bases imposed or otherwise. One might!

It was not that long past that Alexei Navalny was speculated as yet another potentially, dangerous Russian figure! His outspoken views upon racial supremacy are readily accessible. Yet, similarly 'convenient,' 'skewed' or 'weaponised,' although upon no such immense a scale, Navalny's death has served to yet again further particular narrative. Now, it suits to regard Alexei, even in his absence, as a rallying-focus, a national folk hero. Undeniably the man was brave beyond reason but a folk hero? Again, I was able to listen and re-listen to the BBC news reports of Navalny's death and to read the Guardian's 'canonising' words. Neither source opted to reference the huge elephant in the corner; maybe it was being obscured by the former elephant?

Navalny has been increasingly lionised by UK MSM, his less savoury racial opinions fading from discussion in inverse proportion. Russia's invasion both served his reputation, whilst (as seems highly likely) also hastening his demise. Navalny was serving his questionable imprisonment somewhere in the freezing regions of Siberia- as did Solzhenitsyn in his time- his health worsening. He spoke of fevers, back pains, numbness of legs and severe sleep deprivation. Biden is eager to force greater and greater sanctions upon Russia; "We're looking at whole number of options." Predictably quick to judge. Oh, how Palestinians might benefit from such swift interventions on the part of the US of A! Oh, how Julian Assange's health and future wellbeing might benefit from more honest debate!

What the nation wasn't being reminded of was that Navalny, prior to his death, was but one amongst many political prisoners, some of whom Navalny himself might once have labelled 'cockroaches.' Ally of the UK, Israel, continues to ram its prisons with whomsoever it chooses, ever in contravention of international law. Closer, at home in the UK, Assange is one political prisoner with whom, until very recently, we were most definitely not being encouraged to concern ourselves. Ongoing legislation endeavours to labour the fact. Past master, the BBC, comfortably managed to negate any cross-referencing between Navalny and Julian Assange. Under Katherine Viner's editorship the Guardian had refrained from mentioning Assange for many years, although both 'news' sources, now and far far too late, appear more eager to document the UK's tame surrender to it's overseas landlord. Curious, considering that it was the Guardian that initially helped to platform, thus sought to benefit from, Assange's cutting-edge journalism. Navalny the martyred folk hero: Assange the sacrificial lamb! The narrative speaks!

Assange hidden behind the death of Navalny! Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank hidden behind the UK's 'inexplicable' 589% rise in anti-Semitic incidents! All praise to our great and noble 'free press!'

Politicians And Their Lies.

Anyone able to stomach viewing the evidence compiled on the Israeli orchestrated Genocide upon the citizens and international workers in Gaza- nobly compiled on the part of South Africa- will not have been surprised to learn that the ICJ has ruled Israel immediately take steps to protect innocent civilians inside Gaza. Nor will they have been surprised to learn that there is a 'plausible risk' of Acts of Genocide occurring. Filmed footage presented cannot have failed to illicit a sense of absolute dread! Likely also physical revulsion, a sense of terror, something beyond anger at the actions of both Government and Opposition Parties and, perhaps also, tears of deep, deep sorrow!

Anyone who has taken a fearful interest in the multiple acts of violence conducted by Israel State and the IDF over the years, even here, must have been shocked at the hateful disregard for life orchestrated by both members of Israeli political class and militia. Demonstrably, here in the UK, certain individuals have not been permitted to speak this truth but, as a more noble retelling of history must and will eventually record, Israel is now conducting itself far too closely to those 'unmentionable' acts it repeatedly pretends to warn the globe not to repeat. Is there not a curious twist to UK parliament that, whilst one may utter such musings within the UK's more ultra-right political party, one may not make similar observations within the British Labour Party?

Be asurred, or rather do not, the UK has taken up arms in a conflict it has not the courage (or honesty) to represent to its citizens.

I have titled this five part work, 'May we please now call it Genocide?'

In 2018, when MP Jeremy Corbyn was roundly condemned for commemorating the loss of around 70 Palestinian and Tunisian lives- approximately 100 also wounded- in Hamman Chott, Tunisia, 2014, none could have predicted where we might have found ourselves just six short years later. The Israeli airstrike upon a third party sovereign state was roundly condemned at the time by the UN. Calculatedly, the USA abstained.

The United Nations, charged with maintaining international law, has never been friend to Israel. For historical reference, during the years of Apartheid in South Africa, Israel was supportive of the South African Government, thus apartheid. The nation routinely and freely morphs between vociferously favouring State Oppression to that of an Adopted State of Victimhood, ably assisted by the US and other colonists riding the slipstream. But it is unlikely that the UN would then have imagined quite the extent to which Israel truly held international law in utter contempt, a contempt which has yet further morphed into one which might yet light the touch paper to an international conflagration, the like of which few of us are old enough to recall. Approaching the wick the flickering light in Israeli hand has seldom been a shy one; should things worsen and follow their current trajectory history's more honest scribes will have much evidence from which to conclude the early signs.

In 1939 the US elected to stand apart and to observe. In the UK the Daily Mail and Oswald Mosley numbered amongst the avant guarde of Hitler's most vociferous admirers. History, we are so often told, does so like to repeat itself. Disingenuous governments very much tend to hide their intentions behind clever quotes and pseudo-compassionate words. But strip away the glitter and judge the actions and the consequences and superficial prettiness is frequently observed to dissolve, revealing the greater, overriding ugliness within!

Even so, it must have come as something of a shock, on the morning after the ICJ's ruling, not to have witnessed a greater respect for international law within the UK's MSM. An almost entire population displaced, in excess of as many as 40'000 slaughtered civilians, although the sheer scale is forever being massaged downwards, with untold numbers buried under rubble, tens of thousands injured, children undergoing multiple amputations without anaesthetic, all at the behest of a culpable political class cheering from the sidelines, culpable militia routinely downloading footage seeking to glorify the death and destruction of a people and its infrastructure, and there is 'plausible' Ethnic Cleansing, 'plausible' Genocide? However bad you think Israel is, it's worse! Labour duly suspended MP Kate Osamor for drawing undue attention to the ruling. Had she been in the Conservative ranks she would likely have been afforded greater freedom to highlight the 'plausible' Genocide!

Instead, the UK chose to sit on the 'plausible' expanding Genocide and muse until the following day, when its citizens were expected to properly sit up and pay attention. Israel, ever the reliable conveyor of truth to the watching world, had a different tale to tell, it's own particular spin! 'Allegedly,' not 'plausibly,' 'hearsay,' not 'extensively documented,' 'Israeli spokesperson claims' not 'the Globe witnesses,' '12 members of staff,' not an 'entire national militia and political class,' one questionable dossier seeks to pretend links to 7th October, yet to be seen outside of IDF circles. Israel barks "Jump!" and the West springs forth! And the 'plausible' Genocide is duly further enabled!

The dossier containing beheaded babies on 7th October never did materialise, although Biden dreamt he'd seen it- an awake member of his staff later clarified, 'he hadn't!' The observer would do well to consider Israel's historical distain for the truth before raising any expectations of another dodgy dossier ever seeing the light of day. It does not exist! Yet the US of A and poodle UK have opted to suspend funds to UNWRA's 13,000 staff, thus further seeding and enabling weaponised disease to spread amongst thousands of victims of 'plausible' Genocide. Consider: does this action make certain Western nations also culpable? Enabling 'plausible' Genocide!

Fortunately all nations are not so gullible, or culpable as is the UK, as to swallow the Israeli narrative, with its decades long record of proven falsehood and distain for international law. Belgium did not immediately suspend funding for UNWRA. Within hours the Belgian Aid Office inside Gaza was flattened under the US and UK enabled Israeli blitz. Yet further evidence for the honest history scholar- the record of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza grows clearer by the day.

The UK (and USA) already continues to send £$millions in arms to the Rogue State, arms enabling a 'plausible' Genocide. When 'plausible' Genocide is promoted to actual Genocide will the evidence be so particular as to statistically differentiate which weapons garnered most deaths. Will historians be able to break down 'slaughtered via UK supplied arms,' as opposed to 'succumbed to (say) cholera due to withheld UK funds,' or 'died in agony in surgery due to withheld UK aid'? Sanitised history and glorious empire- that which is permissibly taught in schools- will wish to follow the 'Operation Legacy' route but the unedited version will speak the fuller truth. On the pathway to a purer form of Educide the UK still has much to learn from it’s non-European and covert partner. Still, the truth will be so much louder this time! The images will be clearer! There cannot be a bonfire of files, not these ones, not the hours of footage of Israeli War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide, the footage exists in the aether, in the minds and the memories of millions, in the records of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, the United Nations and multiple other groups and organisations.

If the enablers have no respect for those lives overseas what price your's?

As international law and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, contests, a recognised Genocide does not necessarily only regard the actors (the killers, the murderers) as culpable but also the enablers (the USAs, the UKs), those who assisted from the sidelines. The actual Genocide may have taken place overseas but the war-footing of the UK and the USA has never been neutral.

Dame Margaret Hodge, smiling in the dark shadow of 'plausible' War Criminal Israeli PM Isac Herzog, posing, without need for any Daily Mail edited message. Something for her other face to get truly angry about! Here she is! Go on Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, strike with your sword of truth! Or are we at war? To which side are you committed, Sir Keir, upon our behalf? Sky News's Belle Donati makes the obvious comparison, the one that's screaming to be heard from invariably just out of camera shot, in an angry exchange with Israeli spokesperson Danny Danon, daring to question the stated Israeli drive to Ethnic Cleansing. Overdue, Sky dares to observe that 'voluntary emigration' at the point of a gun is essentially Ethnic Cleansing, that those fleeing UK and US enabled carpet bombing are not fleeing 'voluntarily,' that similar 'choices' have been made in 'the past.' Never have those mass migrations of people, at the point of any gun, been classed as 'voluntary.' Until now, apparently- Sky, not Israel, withdrew. Retreated! Just as in a war. 'Voluntary Emigration' or Ethnic Cleansing, decided upon your behalf.

Are we to honestly accept the premise that Israel will invariably be given a free pass to commit it's own particular War Crimes; 'mowing the grass' such actions are termed by the IDF? Yet equating Palestinian lives to blades of grass is somehow okay, thankfully not labelled anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim? Vociferous supporter of Israel, former MP Mike Freer, freely adopts the victim role yet never does he seem to quite comprehend the complete picture. Violence invariably reaps more violence! Acts of 'plausible' Genocide cannot occur in some sort of hermetically sealed protective bubble. Sometimes, cloaked within BBC's selectivity, it is easy to forget that there are still real journalists out there, individuals such as Craig Murray. The story, fake as it transpired, of Palestinian supporters chanting "Gas the Jews!" is shocking. Yet, more shocking is the speed and credence with which the original non-story spread, when viewed alongside the sluggishness and obstructiveness with which any effort at correction, retraction and equal air-time apology is met. Efficiently enabled and then actively defended as a known falsehood. Such is the power of certain (Australian Jewish Association) MSM! Enabling 'plausible' Genocide!

Another beyond elderly Statesperson didn't quite let slip that the US has placed us all on a war footing at the behest of the Rogue State. "I don't even call it aid!" Ms Pelosi beamed, "our co-operation- with Israel." Be under no illusions, "That's who we are." 'We'? Did she say, 'We'? Pelosi might not be pushing the actual buttons- if there's a list her name's on it- but she's all for naming the targets, named, implied or imagined. Watch her in her fatigues, "Russia!" "China!" anyone at all that Israel names in the Middle East. "Putin's message! Putin's message!" the woman frothed, jabbing her finger at the interviewer At the Rogue State Independence Day 'celebrations'- not everyone was celebrating, even then- Biden made clear, "Were there no Israel, America would have to invent one." He concluded, "You protect our interests like we protect yours!"

Meanwhile Israeli Military, not content with having bombed and flattened schools, mosques, refugee compounds, hospitals, families, communities, murdered and maimed thousands of children, the Rogue State is now in the process of excavating Palestinian Graveyards. 'Best not film there,' 'best not even view with your eyes,' 'best believe the IDF.' with their proven record of impeccable honesty. Repeatedly, MSM in the UK conveys the Israeli narrative, the one that curiously never seems to have the evidence to back up outrageous claims. "I'm not going to be able to show you any evidence here," 'clarified' another government mouthpiece, yet enough to justify further enablement of the war. The footage just keeps on coming yet never does it seem to lessen the ICJ's 'plausible' Genocide ruling. '30 bodies discovered, dumped in school yard,' in black plastic bags, legs and arms tied, blindfolded, 'plausibly' Executed! So as not to lower ourselves to the depths of Israeli (dare we say) 'propaganda it should be stated that it is (not yet) proof. But, consider, if the discovery was anything else other than evidence of more Israeli War Crimes, Israel would already be referencing the discovery on national TV. Already and uncharacteristically there is evidence of sorts- the smart money's on further proof of 'plausible' Genocide. There is footage of members of the IDF, dressed as hospital staff, entering a Jenin Hospital in the West Bank in order to summarily execute 3 targeted individuals. Perfidy! More War Crimes? How will the incident be packaged by Western Media? Terrorism?

Although in no way can the slaughter inside Gaza be described (accurately) as any sort of war, make no mistake Israel is on a war footing, essentially 'at war.' The US of A - "You protect our interests as we protect yours,"- almost exists upon a war footing, covert dabbling, regime changes, Middle East, Central America, Asia, conducts the bloodshed from afar! The UK arms and enables- flights from Akrotiri in Cyprus pending- covertly, the nation may have already committed troops to the slaughter. Rulings from the ICJ do not yet seem to have dinted its cause, the flagging economy may yet intervene. Arming others in Ukraine, Britain much prefers to commit via the troops of others. The Chinese Front thankfully remains a Trussian wet dream! On some sort of power-feedback overload, the fleeting PM (Cheesy Liz) in her time at the helm, seemed to imply that the West is already at war with Russia.

War, actual war, costs! It imposes financial costs, it imposes human costs and it imposes moral and reputational costs! Hence the UK's covert investment in projects like 'Operation Legacy.' Another, often unspoken cost of War- as invisible as Government is able to make it- comes in the loss of integrity certain Governmental figures and players undergo. Likely, it matters not to their financial worth, quite possibly those individuals reap rewards (or blood monies) for the misinformation they sew. Check out Blair's Institute for Global Change (TBI). 'Global change,' in such context absolutely chills the blood! No longer the inconvenience and time constraints of waiting upon the next election for TB. The seeds bloom like the 'weeds' and grasses pushing up through the cracks in our pavements, they are evident everywhere. And, like those pavement adornments, they have become so immured in UK infrastructure that we almost no longer notice; they waft about our heads and our minds much like autumnal breezes. Where they make contact we may not even surmise the connection. Everywhere war imposes its costs!

Incrementally, covertly or semi-covertly War may spread! Incrementally, through false messaging and disingenuous spokespeople (that may title themselves 'journalists') disinformation spreads and truth withers on the vine. In keeping with the formula the UK has opted to follow the US narrative that it is the Houthis who risk fanning the flames of war, the same UK and US that continues to fund the 'plausible' Genocide in Gaza, whilst continuing to liberally shower the wider region under a blitzkrieg of sprayed missile strikes, threats to terror, and a well honed narrative of assumed dominion! Increasingly though, the globe observes that it is USA and certain factions of the West who would fan the 'flames' and fuel the 'fires' that public audience is neither invited nor encouraged to observe. And yet we do! US and its poodle sprays 85 approximate targets in Syria and Iraq- the same Iraq within which the US et al imposed yet another of its many overseas regime changes (2003- 2011). Absolutely, we are fed, 'it is the Houthis who are risking a regional conflict.' Absolutely, the narrative follows, do not draw any connection with 'plausible' Genocide in Gaza! Listen to our spokespeople upon your mighty BBC! "We have Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari of the IDF on the line... " The ever available "Katy Balls from the Spectator Magazine, what should we in the UK be making of all this?" 'Carpet-bombed Yemini Houthis, targeting solely Israeli related trade, in support of Palestinians,' or 'further US (plus poodle UK) carpet bombing of the whole region, pretending that a 'plausible' Gazan Genocide isn't happening, or being funded, or even related?' It's becoming daily more implausible to even imply that the US argument is worthy of the air time it is so often afforded. "A final word from Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari... ?"

Intermittently, I listen to 'Any Answers' on BBC Radio 4. Too often, the panel on 'Any Questions,' I find to be wholly 'of a kind.' During a recent broadcast, I think it was Saturday 27th January, one caller concluded with, "If the IDF had just killed my daughter I think I'd join Hamas." I don't think any of the callers was still wishing to be openly associated with the line "Israel has the right to defend itself."

There's the US/Israeli/UK derived narrative and then there's the truth! So, now we know who are the Mad Dogs who accompany the Englishmen. It seems the UK is at war but, as yet, not officially, in defence of St George, the Neoliberal Economy and Israel's right to commit 'plausible' Genocide!