So we flew once more. Arrived at Ben Gurion airport, ran out, grabbed the car (in reality this took an incredibly impatient and frustrating 40 minutes, for a car pre-booked and arranged) drove into Tel Aviv (20 minutes on a good night) and arrived at the restaurant for the ‘pre-wedding; friends-from-over-somewheres dinner’ just an hour late. Do not pass ‘go’, do not collect 200 sheckels, do not shower, shave nor change. Then we had to park. By which time it was another half an hour. But who cares? We’d arrived. And they hadn’t served the main course yet. I’d packed a doggy bag just in case. A great night. And fortunately not a very late night. As we still had to drive elsewhere to bed down. Tonight is the wedding. Ahhhhhh.

Meanwhile, what’s happening back home? Its all a disaster. Jeremy Corbyn is turning into a true communist leader. Everyone who disagrees with him is taken to the river and ice-picked in the ear before being dumped in, laden down with bricks. Three more of his ministers were sacked this week. Ok, not murdered in any literal sense, but Jeremy ‘the great listener’ has become Jeremy ‘the great listener of people who say exactly what he likes to hear’. Like Stalin. So say what you like in praise of the IRA or Hezbollah, accuse ‘the West’ of being the problem responsible for terrorist attacks in Paris, but say anything outside the left-wing, anti-tory, nuclear disarmament line and, in the words of Alan Sugar: you’re DEAD.

But there’s good news on the horizon. The result of Saudi Arabia and Iran falling foul of each other is that oil prices have dropped yet further. I’m hoping for all out war then we might get to gas up for under a quid a litre. Surely that’s worth a total nuclear bloodbath, no??

And its a quite ridiculous situation out there, or perhaps ‘over here’ in the middle east. As Iran has upset the Saudis in response to the Kingdom killing Iran’s favourite Imam. Although when you’re ‘executing’ 47 people in one go, they may have just pulled the wrong beard out of the crowd. Who knows. So diplomatic relations have been severed between the two nations. The biggest Sunni country in the region, Saudi, and the biggest Shia anywhere, Iran. And as the Saudis are now almost seen (as they should be) as baddies, its time that the nation who are (other than North Korea) the second most oppressive and barbaric on the planet, should not be viewed as ‘our ally’ because they buy a few of our bombs. They invented Wahabism, the satanic version of Islam upon which every jihadi group is based. The extreme version of sharia. Women don’t drive, vote, study there, gays are executed, though taxes are low, if you’re looking for a sound financially beneficial move.

So Iran have become almost ‘the good guys’ in this.

And that’s when you KNOW that the world is in big trouble.

Off to a wedding, happy days and mazzletovs

A xxxx