Well someone has to start thinking strategically about the downfall of rubber man, the clagster and coalition forces! It also fits in with ideas about how to encourage slow politics.
It is somewhat unnerving that the world changes so quickly and leaves so many with their trousers round their ankles (Mr Blair endlessly snogging the green and latterly brown tyrant) It is also unbelievable that more have not been killed though no doubt there will be deaths untold and horrors that we will not (and some will not wish to) know about.
A lighter, farcical, note was provided by Robert Fiske reporting in the Indie
It now emerges, thanks to a genuine old-fashioned scoop in Le Monde, that President Ben Ali didn't really intend to flee his country at all. He planned to fly his immediate family to safety in Riyadh and then return to Tunis next morning to continue his reign. Only when the Tunisair crew arrived in Saudi Arabia and saw al-Jazeera in the airport's VIP lounge, announcing Ben Ali's overthrow, did they call Tunis and receive a new flight plan to take off at 1.30am the following day. They discreetly flew away while the President slept, leaving the dictator planeless in Riyadh.Worthy of Boot of the Beast.
I wonder what the world will be like at $200 per barrel. I can’t see that level of power being wasted on democracy. As evidence m’lud I cite a certain Mr Put In. Tovarish of this parish and one time member of the organs of state security. He has achieved a such a lot on $100 a barrel!
