Thud me Gripkims

I just spent a very pleasurable half and hour in the company of the Goons. Its on radio I player and BBC Four Extra every week. No matter how fed up one gets, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Ned of Wales cannot be beat for putting a smile back on your face. If you are the generation without memory of Radio Comedy what better introduction could one have than these three wonderful idiots. All you need is a imagination and your there.

It has been an interesting week. The demise of my marriage goes on with the pair of us becoming more estranged by the week and I can only say that the estrangement is being accomplished with the greatest of good will and good manners on both sides. Just a general sense of sadness that the good things we had could not of offset some of the bad. However, it takes two to make a relationship and only one to break it and so I am outnumbered.

On the international scene; I see Turkey has waded in and decided to bomb ISIS. No doubt the Turks will wage this war as they waged the peace. They will bomb the Kurds and Isis equally so as not to offend. I think it is well passed time that there was an independent Kurdistan.. They have been a feature in the region for thousands of years and the only reason they are not doing there own thing is because of the total first class abortion the allied powers made of drawing the borders of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria after the first world war. Kurdistan just happens to straddle all these countries and they have been appalling treated along with the Armenians for generations.

The Kurds also deserve far greater recognition for the way they stood up and were severely beaten by Saddam Hussein back in the 90s. They rose up and stood up to Hussein because President Bush told them to following the first Gulf War and then they were left without our support and suffered his retribution. If it had not been for the British Prime Minister John Major declaring a no fly zone over them in the mountains they had taken refuge in it could have been another genocide.

Now of course the Kurds are the only effective army fighting ISIS and they do so with total commitment. The are valiant fighters and give no quarter or expect any.  The women fighters of the YPG are particulalry fierce and much feared by ISIS and for obvious reasons will fight to the death rather than surrender to ISIS and probably a fate far worse than death.

We should remember them when we sit here behind the security they provide for us.. Because, believe me if ISIS win in North Africa we would be next. How would you like your daughter to have to take up arms against them.