Greetings from the Kirk

One of the prime culprits of the Afghanistan fiasco has been giving his moral compass a bit of a twirl. Son of a preacher-man Gordon Brown, the implacable self-pity machine and bank-roller at the taxpayer's expense of the Reverend Tony Blair's various final solutions to the Eastern Question, is so disturbed about Afghanistan that he has deigned to inform readers of the Murdoch Times that somebody ought to do something about it. Brown, who once wrote a book of sermons about courage from much the same level of personal experience as Boris Johnson might bring to a book about integrity, seems to have attained no less than his usual depths. Like all foreseeable catastrophes of British military intervention, the consequences of the crusade in Afghanistan are self-evidently ironic rather than criminal, and should be tackled as much from the need to prevent waves of filthy migrants as from the innate decency and tolerance of Gordon Brown and the readers of the Murdoch Times.