If Diego Garcia was used to sell fear before the proof existed, Britain needs an investigation, not another lie used to drag us closer to war. Right, so Israel and its friends have spent days trying to sell one very simple story. Iran fired missiles at Diego Garcia, that joint American-British base in the Indian Ocean, and therefore Europe should stop hanging back, stop asking awkward questions, and start feeling properly frightened, because if they can reach Diego Garcia, then they can reach you. In fact they’ve even rolled out their Chief of Staff, the head of the IDF just to nail on how big an issue this is for Europe. Curious that that message was clearly meant for Western interests, yet was still delivered in Hebrew without subtitles, I added those myself, so who are you trying to convince here exactly? Anyway, this story has readily started ...