Diary

Yesterday I posted that I needed to take a break from writing this daily blog.

It's not been much of a break. But it's taught me something.

It's simply that today I feel I must write this. I don't know if it does any good. I have to write it anyway.

I knew this the minute I heard on this morning's news that the government are using the attempted murder of Sergei and Julia Skripal as a pretext to expand the chemical warfare facility on Porton Down.

A new "chemical weapons defence centre". God knows what evil is concealed by that euphemism.

I know perfectly well that Putin and his government are perfectly capable of mounting a chemical attack on these two individuals. But I know, too, that we also live under an evil regime.

There is something profoundly suspicious about the official narrative that is being told us.

It saddens me to see the SNP being so eager to side with Trump and the Conservatives in supporting it.

I think of the words of my INES DE CASTRO:

"They'll lie to you.
They'll tell you that they have to kill.
That they cannot avoid committing crimes.
Don't believe them. Don't believe them for a moment.
Remember there's another way..."