For months, Houthi rebels have defied the West, using missiles, drones and boarding parties to terrorise freighters entering the Red Sea sailing towards the Suez Canal.
This week the anticipated response arrived as a coalition of ten countries, led by the United States and Britain, mounted retaliatory air strikes.
Meanwhile, I am sure that in my memory, Britain has never functioned worse.
The NHS is in collapse and even to get a doctor’s appointment online is unachievable for many. The railways function only periodically.
The rottenness of the British state has been laid bare by the Post Office scandal.
Although ministers and MPs have known of the scandal for years, it has taken a television drama for the government to admit that it can do something to bring about restitution.
The Horizon IT scandal led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub-postmastersPOST OFFICEHow can we have faith in British justice that convicted so many innocent people?
Beyond that, our police forces have lost public confidence. Immigration is not under control.
The government is unable to build new houses, schools or railways. Civil servants don’t go to the office and are unaccountable.
MPs are involved in scandals.
Meanwhile the only reforms that are undertaken seem to move us closer to the sinister absurdities of wokery.
These are conditions that ought perhaps to produce a revolution.
Has the public just decided that nothing will ever get better?