When I talk about ‘revolting’, I’m not just referring to Joey’s eating habits, there is another meaning. And it seems that good, honest, decent people are taking to the streets, in countries run by not-good, dishonest, indecent people and making a stand. Which, due to the very nature of those leaders, is a bit dangerous.

The Russians are up in arms or, more sensibly, just running away, in response to Mister Putin calling them all up to help kill Ukrainians. He wants to ‘mobilise’ 300,000 reservists, give them no option (though who, ever, would volunteer?), and send them to either die or to kill people who most consider their own flesh-and-blood. Probably the former because Russia doesn’t do ‘military tactics’. It never has. It uses ‘outnumbering’ as its sole form of warfare. Not that Ukraine is a ‘war’, no way Vlad. It may look like a war, it may feel like a war (to the people who live there), but its just a ‘special military action’, to protect Russia and Russians. Right. So as Putin’s fragile grip on sanity leads him down ever darkening pathways, he wants to send in another bunch of healthy young men to get killed. To protect his nation from a threat no-one else can see. Except that scumbag Sergey Labrov, his liar-in-chief. So Putin loses his young, the very future of the nation he’s allegedly doing it all for, as they flee its borders in search of safety and the opportunity to live a life.

Whilst in Iran, possibly the only nation less tolerant than Putin’s, they’re burning… well, lots of things but mainly hijabs. Which may be good for the manufacturers because being seeing without one is an offence in that lovely country, but its a statement that merely represents the total hatred most Persians (I’ll call them that to differentiate them from the horrible Ayatollah-wallahs) feel for the hard and brutal Islamic regime they find themselves living under.

So ostensibly, the riots are about the death of a 22 year-old girl. Who died, ‘of a heart attack’, according to the ‘morality police’, in whose care she was at the time. She was fit, healthy, no underlying medical anything. They arrested her for ‘not wearing her hijab properly’. A phrase that has no meaning whatsoever anywhere outside of Tehran. And she died in the police van. And although it’s about that tragic event, really that’s just a catalyst for the deep-lying resentment Persians have for being forced to live a sharia life when they want to be dancing in the streets of Paris and Berlin, but in their own country. Where, according to government spokesman, ‘wearing a hijab is voluntary’. Yet they have police to enforce it and the Prime Minister refused to be interviewed in America by a journalist until she wore one. Where’s a Shah when you need one?

Happy riotous Friday

A xxxx