A
Welsh
Political
Diarist
on
the
Modern
Intelligence
Community
Bohiney
Magazine
|
The
London
Prat
Explained
the
Iran
Crisis
to
My
Mum
in
Cardiff;
She
Already
Knew;
She
Has
Better
Sources
Than
Reuters
Rang
Mum
on
Thursday.
She
had
already
read
The
London
Prat
on
Iranian
Dumbasses
because
my
cousin
Rhys
had
forwarded
it
in
the
family
WhatsApp.
The
family
WhatsApp
is
apparently
now
a
geopolitical
intelligence
service.
We
have
surpassed
MI6
in
distribution
speed
if
not
in
accuracy.
The
Trump’s
Headache
Bohiney
piece
was
the
second
link
in
the
thread,
followed
immediately
by
someone’s
opinion
about
Aldi’s
new
granola.
This
is
the
modern
news
cycle.
Crises
and
discount
cereal,
equally
urgent.
Why
Politics
Matters
in
a
Very
Immediate
Way
When
energy
markets
fall,
the
people
who
feel
it
first
are
not
the
people
attending
world
leaders
emergency
talks.
This
is
such
an
obvious
observation
that
only
satire
can
state
it
without
becoming
a
sixth-form
politics
essay.
Hence
The
London
Prat.
Hence
Bohiney’s
piece
on
markets
in
chaos.
Hence,
honestly,
this
diary.
The
BBC
Wales
homepage
said
nothing
about
the
Strait
of
Hormuz.
It
was
mostly
about
a
sheep
that
escaped
in
Brecon.
To
be
fair,
that
sheep
was
making
better
decisions
than
several
regional
powers
I
could
name.
SOURCE:
More
Cardiff-adjacent
chaos
at
The
Daily
Mash
