Going Under

During his mid-term difficulties in the spring of 1945, Mr Churchill's great contemporary robustly reproached the USSR and its allies for refusing to be driven back by the supremely powerful armies conjured up in his patriotic imagination. Instead the Reich's invaders persisted in defeating troops afflicted with mere carnal actuality, with deplorable if temporary results for the cause of European fantasy politics. In a similar spirit, the Department for Increasing Emissions (DIE) has greeted its latest courtroom Stalingrad with the complaint that the unelected enemies of the people would do better to rah-rah the Government's grand plans than pooh-pooh the petty processes by which it fails to realise them. The high court has found that the carbon reduction action plan (CRAP) emitted by one of Michael Green's pseudonyms is unlawful, and that its approval was not justified by, of all things, evidence. Whether the situation will be improved by Fishy Rishi's decision to allow offshore wind turbines to be used as literal cover for fossil fuel drilling remains to be seen; but doubtless there are maps in the Westminster Führerbunker that make the whole thing crystal clear.