I worry for the world. All of it. Ok, my bit of it. Its fucked. Totally. By people intent on death and destruction of ‘the western way of life’. And I hate them. Simply hate them. Not enough that I would take my own life to destroy them, or to meaninglessly destroy some symbol of them, but an attack on people enjoying life is an attack on me.

ISIS claimed responsibility for France. They would. To them it represents some form of ‘glory’. So even if it had nothing to do with them, they’d be happy for it.

What we need to do is find out who is funding ISIS. You can’t run a sustained war on about 6 different fronts with pocket money. With ‘looted funds’. You need proper money. MONEY! And it comes from somewhere. Whether, as rumours have it, that is from Saudi Arabia, always keen on Sunni domination in any form, or from Qatar, we need to know. And then that is upon whom we declare war. Either diplomatic war or the real thing. Until the funding of ISIS stops. Oil or no oil.

Sadly that won’t stop every unbalanced jihadi-scumbag from doing things like that which occurred in Nice on Thursday night. That, tragically, is the end product of a vile ideology. But its a start. As they say in all the best fiction: follow the money.

Turkey is more interesting. A nation desperate to join the EU, to embrace the Western end of its middle-eastern geography, with the freedoms and democracy that go with such a move. Yet the pull of the East is strong in that one, my Lord, and the President tries to inch ever more closely to an Islamic state under sharia law and autocracy. Like its neighbours before the ‘Arab spring’ which rapidly became Arab autumn and is now for the main part, lingering in an Arab arctic winter.

Turkey, even in the guise of a ‘democracy’ (which over there simply means: ‘between coups’), has imprisoned more journalists than any other country. And now they’ve imprisoned all the judges, as well as half the army. Lot of work to be done there, I feel.

Sad and depressing Saturday

A xxxx