Saddam is a lovely lad when you get to know him

The old saw has it that ‘if you sup with the devil,bring a long spoon’. Well the IOC sold out to the bad guys long since and whatever moral authority they may have had was further thrashed today as they tell us they have a video of the Chinese tennis player and she just wants to be left alone. Yea right. Watching the video reminds me of nothing only the one saddam Hussain released with the downed RAF pilot back in 91 where the capture airman told us everything was hunky dory and saddam was a lovely lad once you got to know him. The IOC will have spent the last week using every back channel and scrap of influence to get China to come to their senses and save the billion dollars in play for the Winter Olympics. As it stand the yanks are already griping about going and all they need is an excuse so the sportswashers have every reason to be worried. The world is watching. Meanwhile back in neverland the Qatar Grand Prix was graced with the presence of Becks himself who now has a gig as the public face of the 22 World Cup for eye watering millions on behalf of the desert billionaires. No matter that if Harper 7 or posh spice was to dare try in Qatar any of the normal things they take for granted in Blighty such as to venture forth without a male escort they would find themselves behind bars. No matter that when they opened the envelopes for the 18 and 22 World Cup venues, becks and the rest were humiliated by the same Qatari emirs and the Russians. Maybe they gave him the pr gig to show there’s no hard feelings but if I was a betting man I’d say it has more to do with Becks million dollar smile dazzling any would be awkward questions from unreconstructed western media.

Anyway,though I didn’t see it myself a seriously miffed sky reporter tells us that though the great man was present for the race today a defensive cordon of heavies was there to prevent any questions. Apparently there is some doubt about whether he has assumed official duties yet. Meanwhile a mouthpiece for the regime tells us that there have been three deaths in the course of the stadium constructions. Amnesty puts the figure in the thousands of fatalities and and a plethora of human rights abuses so you can see why Becks wasn’t taking questions. Back in 2013 as he was again overlooked for a knighthood the mask slipped and he railed about the likes of ‘drug convict’ Charlotte Church getting the nod and here he was doing Trojan work on behalf of the UEFA children’s foundation. There’s no fairness in this world it seems. When you boil it all down you can only conclude that China and the IOC and the’ Peckhams’ the Qataris deserve each other.