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Hang on, who is Britain fighting in the Middle East?

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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‘If you have been following the news under the influence of mild sunstroke, you might be forgiven for thinking that Israel and Hezbollah had declared war on Britain, so overwhelming has been the coverage of British citizens caught in Lebanon. Those experiencing severe symptoms might even imagine that it is the Luftwaffe strafing Brits, after Kim Howells, the Foreign Office minister, compared the Lebanese evacuation to Dunkirk….’

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