Several emails have arrived today warning me that this blog is under attack. I kid you not. Some people in Iran – Iran!!! – have made numerous attempts to log in and have now been locked out.
I don’t know what it is I have done to upset the Mad Mullahs. It’s not as if I have a great deal of influence in international politics and even on a very good day, traffic on this website is measured in hundreds, not millions. So, what’s going on?
Putting on my conspiracy theory hat, it could be something to do with Jeremy Corbyn. I don’t mean that the Magic Grandpa himself is conniving to have me silenced. Admittedly he now probably has too much time on his hands, and might so upset by all the horrible, but true, things about him that he has instructed his former paymasters at Iranian state TV, Press TV, who paid him £20,000 a few years ago to make some propaganda shows for them, to shut me up. I think that’s unlikely, though.
Or maybe it’s a response to whichever God people believe in. But even that’s silly because all of us are atheists about most Gods who have ever been invented, except the one they actually believe in. Some of us go one God further. I don’t tell them that they can’t actually believe in the existence of an invisible supernatural creator. I merely tell them it’s a bit silly. So it can’t be that.
And I actually supported the nuclear deal concluded by President Obama that stopped Iran developing weapons of mass destruction. So it can’t be that, either.
No, I am at a complete loss to understand what I have done to upset my Iranian friends – and believe me some of my best friends literally are Iranian.
So, if this blog starts praising Allah, supports Bristol City and suggests I am listening to music by Queen and Muse, you’ll know I’ve been hacked.
