the brilliantly leaping gazelle

In Lewis Carroll’s “ Through the Looking-Glass”, the White Queen tells Alice that she praises believing ‘six impossible things before breakfast.’  This, she maintains, is a good thing; that it illustrates how the power of power of belief and imagination can make the impossible possible. In the Britain of 2026 however, where objective reality for some is objectionable, the power of belief and imagination causes them to believe more than six impossible things, and not just before breakfast either. All day, every day.

Including today, International Women’s Day. People in the UK, and around the world no doubt, have been protesting their support for the Iranian regime, and decrying the death of Supreme Leader Snoke. These idiots are blinded by their own moral certainty. So invested are they in their belief that everything America and Israel do is evil incarnate and that therefore who they do it to is deserving of their outrage, that their breathtaking hypocrisy escapes them.

The sheer level of contradictions one would need to overcome in order to think such a thing is incomprehensible.. That large numbers of ostensibly sensible people think it is worse. That they imagine that International Women’s Day is a suitable occasion upon which to lament and mourn what Iranian women have been pleading for for years only proves how deluded the protesters are 

Under Supreme Leader Snoke, the evil empire of Iran was not exactly known for being a staunch defender of women’s rights.  The legal restrictions upon them and the ruthless application of them, defies any rational understanding. Women in Iran, if they even get to see the images of the protesters, can only wonder at the absolute betrayal of people who would call themselves feminists. But who still have no problem putting their dangerous political fantasy  before universal principles of equality. Who enjoy the freedoms that living in a Western nation offers, one that has had the Enlightenment and its attendant values woven into society. A society moreover, that derives its laws not from religious interpretations of a book written over a thousand years ago, but from set of laws that are being constantly updated to better reflect the society it serves.

But getting back to Lewis Carroll, the White Queen and the six impossible things. If you believe that women can have penises, that achieving Net Zero is a worthwhile undertaking or that free speech isn’t absolute, then I suppose you can also think that Supreme Leader Snoke’s death is a bad thing.