here are so many ‘if only’s about at the moment. And they increase and multiply. If only we hadn’t had an administration that allowed a lot of politically well-connected people to invent companies, or use existing ones, to sell Covid-related materials (PPE as they call it), we wouldn’t have a long line of claims appearing in court. If only the British and US secret services had not undermined Mossadegh, the legally elected prime minister of Iran, and installed the Shah – leading to the revolution of the Ayatollah 25 years later – we wouldn’t have
