Truth Bombs

It is well known that rats tend to dislike sinking ships, and also that they often do quite well on battlefields. Thus the Minister for Plucky Little Servicepersons has followed the Minister for Wog-Bombing out of the Government, ostensibly on the grounds that the pittance allotted to their department is not only too small, but is also being spent on outdated toys. Anyone who has followed the recent procurement triumphs of military Britishness will be hard put to disagree, although to its credit Team Starmer has largely preferred to condone and connive at other people's wars rather than starting any by itself. Even the continuing assaults on the Labour left and other disadvantaged persons are merely a continuation of the work of Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring and his models in the Conservative Party. The ex-minister made the laughable claim that the CEO of Team Starmer is honest, and the meaningless claim that he is "integral;" but he did have the good grace to admit that "looking how to fight the last war rather than the next one" is an incorrect approach to defence. Since the last war Britain fought was the Afghan Campaign of glorious memory, and the war before that was the Libyan adventure which has brought such relief to the refugee crisis, and the war before that was the Iraq crusade, and since not one of those wars could remotely be construed as defensive, it appears once again that being out of office can be moderately effective in alleviating an allergy to the truth. It is to be hoped that further doses are in preparation.