Rugby and Other Things

What a game. Exhausting yet exhilarating but England held out to win today's 6 Nations match against the French. Nothing more satisfying than beating the French and everyone else for that matter. It will be a great weekend if England can also beat India tomorrow in the Cricket World Cup. It is also satisfying that Fine Gael have come top of the poll in Ireland which feeling is matched by the satisfaction of seeing the battering Fianna Fail have received at the hands of the voters. Fianna Fail was the party of that poisonous and treacherous little man De Valera, not really an Irishman at all but a Spaniard who would have risen high in the ranks of the Inquisition so evil was he. Apart from that there is disappointment that no one has yet delivered the coup de grace to Gaddafi and his nasty, brutal regime. Having read Charles Moore's article in today's Telegraph it is difficult not to be concerned about what will come after the current Middle East despots have all gone. Basically Moore is saying that if Lebanon is an example they will only be replaced by other despotic regimes like the Muslim Brotherhood. As evidence that this is possible Moore refers to reports that that Islamist monster Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi delivered a speech in Tahrir Square, Cairo ,shortly after the resignation of Mubarak, to a large and supportive audience. God help us all.