In this episode of Shire Network News, Brtish foreign policy specialist and non-insane person (the two tend to be mutually exclusive these days) Robin Shepherd talks to Tom Paine about a new TV documentary in which the UK's foreign policy is portrayed as completely in thrall to sinister, shadowy "Zionist" businessmen, who manipulate politicians and journalists from the shadows. It turns out the British media is totally controlled by these "Zionists", which I must say is quite a relief. Here was me thinking they were a pack of Jew-hating arseholes who never missed a chance to tell lies about Israel and whitewash Islamist groups! I recommend watching such programs, it's really rather comforting to be told we secretly run the world. Makes a change from the usual threats to slaughter us all with knives and/or drop atomic bombs on us until we're not alive any more.

 

Mr Shepherd is also the author of "A State Beyond the Pale: Europe's Problem With Israel". Heh. Beyond the Pale. That's clever that is. Historical allusion to Eastern Europe and the Pale of Settlement. See, and they say an Oxbridge education isn't worth as much as it used to be. That's some some quality referencing and clever juxtapositioning right there in the title, imagine how good the book itself is going to be.

 

Doug Payton lists the achievements of Obama's first year in office (hint, he's taking the piss), Meryl Yourish reveals that David Ickes was right all along, and Brian of London suggests the Palestinians be made to sit on the naughty stool until they give Gilad Shalit back.

 

In Blog News, the Royal Navy covers its reputation in some lame-ass shit as it tries to pretend that having Somali pirates capture British citizens on the high seas while an RN vessel loaded with Royal Marines sits back and watches the entire process without doing anything about it is perfectly normal. The terrifying thing is, in the modern Navy with everyone at the top level heavily indoctrinated with political correctness, sitting around with one's finger us one's nose may well be the new normal.

 

And for any of our colonials who might be about to make a crack about goddamn limey fruits, limp dicks and other merry traditional trans-Atlantic jibes, the US Navy Seals who captured the bastard responsible for the murder and hideous mutilation  of four US security guards in Fallujah are now facing a trial because the guy now sports a fat lip. This is not a positive development, to say the least.You can't fight a war as if it's an episode of Law & Order. Mind you, putting Fred Thompson in charge would not be the worst idea around.

 

We hear a detailed explanation about the constitutional and electoral process under which some random Belgian with freakish hair became Supreme Leader of Europe.

 

We have some fun with BNP leader Nick Griffin, and document the decadent collapse of the West via the medium of an artist" who is getting paid pubic money to hold a "dance" event consisting of her having an epileptic seizure on stage. When your society sponsors artists for whom the first stage of their inspiration consists of "stopping their medication" I think we can agree the game is basically over. 

 

Oh and would be be a dear and go vote for SNN in the Podcast Awards? It's so embarrassing if we come in dead last. Especially if it's the final podcast awards before the total collapse of western civilisation. Boy would our face be red if that happened and we didn't have another chance to do better next year! Shire Network News will be back again in two weeks time, assuming any of us are still alive.