Priti Patel is at the centre of a storm. She is in fact that storm. Allegations of bullying, lying, harassment, abuse, demeaning, rape (I just added that for drama) and tyrannical behaviour have led to calls for our Home Secretary to explain herself to parliament. Well, Labour have called for that, so she probably won’t bother. The Prime Minister has stated his ‘full confidence and support’ in Ms Patel. Which, in Westminster parlance, normally means ‘gone by Tuesday’. But this is not ‘normal’ government. It is no longer seen as a place where shouting, swearing and violence are viewed as abnormal or detrimental. Priti Patel is merely a short Dominic Cummings. Bit wider. More hair. And as such will retain her job, and her smug smile. Particularly as she remains one of the only 4% of women in the SW1 area who have NOT given birth to a Boris-baby.

The Middle East gets more worrying every day. And its just soooo complicated. Turkey shot down 2 of President Assad’s jet fighter planes yesterday. In retaliation for Assad bombing loads of the Turkish troops who are in Idlib to try and prevent the massacre of innocent civilians which is currently being systematically perpetrated by Assad and his Russian mates. So Turkey has almost, effectively attacked Russia. Almost.

Assad is bombing Idlib because it is the last remaining ‘stronghold’ for anti-government rebels. And as we’re opposed to the Syrian government, as any decent human being should be, we must therefore default to supporting these rebels. But these rebels are, along with the Turks and lots of just ‘normal Syrian people’, jihadists. Fighters previously with ISIS, with Al Quaeda, are now continuing their fight in Syria as ‘the rebels’. Which is why Assad can proclaim his ‘war against terrorism’. Even though the terrorists are now seemingly fighting against the bad guys. So you have a war running between the positively evil and the downright awful. Which would be just fine if there weren’t a million innocent men, women and loads of children in the middle of it.

What happened to the good guys wearing the white hats and the baddies wearing the black ones? So you knew who was who? Probably lacked diversity. Discrimination against red-hatted people. Gender biased.

Happy Monday

A xxxx