I have a cold. Such a bad cold, its actually approaching the lower limits of the dreaded ‘man-flu’, a terrible condition which renders the sufferer unable to function in any normal way and can lead him (always a him, doh: man-flu) to lie inert for several days watching re-runs of Match of the Day and drinking gallons of tea that MUST (man-flu has very strict rules) be made by other people. Nurses, wives, children, parole officers. But that is the only possible cure for this sometimes fatal condition. Though its only really fatal when the afore-mentioned wife gets so pissed off that murder seems the only possible relief for all. Almost a mercy killing.

Anyway, its just a cold for now, but I’ll keep you posted in case you need to send me grapes, magazines and bottles of lucozade.

Paracetamol is currently my best friend. But heh, I’m not one to feel sorry for myself. That would hardly seem fair when there’s good, honest Queens Park Rangers fans out there really suffering

But even that could be worse. We could be in Syria.

Which is in such a state now that I just had to re-read an article 7 times to try and ascertain who is killing whom and where/if there are any good guys. Here’s the problem, as seen in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city.

The rebel fighters are about to lose their long time battle with Assad’s forces. Assad has murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, possibly used illegal chemical weapons on civilian populations and is the baddest of bad dudes. So ‘we’ here in ‘The West’ (I like that, makes me sound like a cowboy, yeee-haaah) have been supporting the rebels for many months in their fight against this awful tyrant. But over that period the secular rebels have also been fighting with the jihadist rebels who were originally there to help them. As ever though, the power and message of jihad, plus the murder of all opposition, swamps all other issues and gradually the non-jihadis have buggered off. Leaving the ultra-conservative Ahrar al-Sham group, which fights with the Nusra Front, which is aligned to al-Quaeda. Who have strong alliances with ISIS, the biggest evil the world has ever known. And we, ‘the West’ are supporting them with air strikes.

Which is why Britain won’t get involved in Syria against ISIS, but only in Iraq, even though we’re cowboys. The only other conclusion you can draw is that there simply are no good guys in Syria. Just a lot of tragically innocent people.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx