Cunning Stunts

Despite the departure of the pubescent Gavin Williamson, it seems the Ministry for Wog-Bombing is still being run on the principle of hurried fumbling. While detaining an Iranian tanker as part of Global Britain's buccaneering policy of oozing itself into the Trumpster's pocket, the Government apparently neglected to ensure that Britannia ruled enough waves in the Strait of Hormuz to stop the Iranians retaliating. Of course, there is every possibility that the Recrudescent Imperium is very independently and entrepreneurially being used by the Trumpster's head-tribble's best buddy, John Bolton, to escalate tensions in the region and bring about the long-hoped-for Armageddon with the Shah-busters; but since the Iranians are both foreign and Muslim, it is also conceivable that the Conservatives simply didn't think it would occur to the mad mullahs to try anything so human as a tit-for-tat. In any event although the Battle of the Atlantic is perhaps insufficiently rah-rah for present purposes, the first patriotic squeals of "Remember the Lusitania!" can hardly be far away.