IRAN & BREXIT: The appalling price to be paid for blocist alliances

Now’s the time for some broader, joined-up thinking from the decency  spectrum right across the West

I don’t include any of the above characters in such a spectrum. To call them a complex bunch of characters would be a triumph of understatement, but ‘decent’ wouldn’t apply in anything other than a homoaeopathic sense.

The problem is, we have a crisis on our hands, and not enough people at any level in possession of a brain at ease with itself are around to put pressure on them. Barnier clearly hasn’t noticed the UK election result, Macron is just a perverse stooge, and both Trump and Johnson will paddle their personal canoes unti Hell freezes over.

Brexit, NATO, mass migration, Islamist activism, democracy versus corporatocracy, liberal versus traditional and neoliberal versus collectivist are events and belief systems that have split the West asunder during the 21st century.