Just when you thought the British ruling classes could not stoop any lower or more avidly play Limelight Leapfrog to the detriment of their electors’ well-being, we lately witnessed a deluge of fawning, flash-lit, choreographed adulation over the petty, proxy-war despot masquerading as a paladin of liberty – the fearless defender of ‘our values’  – who was not seen as the importunate beggar he is, but as some holy guru, come to grace them with his sainted presence. Continue reading …