This is not a good time to get an old Leonard Cohen song stuck in your head but for better or worse, that is just what I have got. It was published in 1988, and even then it was a frustrating experience listening to it – I mean, everybody knows – everybody knew back then, only they didn’t — I mean…

I spent a long hour this morning listening to Matt Kennard talking about what everybody knows, and about the fact that for a best part of a year he was one of the few who was following and publishing developments on this story that everybody knows. It’s got to the stage now that, with David Lammy having clearly stated on Radio 4 that his government knows it would be wrong to participate in a genocide, alongside all the evidence coming out of Cyprus, and now from your actual outraged army officers, anyone paying attention cannot pretend not to know that the UK, along with the US and Germany, have been major perpetrators of this genocide, this man-made destruction, this ‘famine’, and have themselves admitted that they know it’s wrong so it’s an open and shut case. So long as it comes to court. Will it, if we keep paying attention…?

And we are paying attention – in our millions, in our billions.

And along with that comes the realisation that, in the face of cruelty and death on a massive scale and imminent climate crisis, no one but a sociopath could possibly tolerate being a quietly compliant member of any of these governments we are stuck with.

We wait now to see if the Attorney General is going to sign off the prosecution of all those good people who were out on Saturday confirming what everybody knows … or not.

What will happen if they’re all prosecuted? What will happen if they are not?

Everybody knows…

…but what does everybody know?

We need to work very, very hard to hold all this stuff together, to see it whole. Why is the government’s story unravelling now, rather than six months or a year or two years ago? Because they’ve handed the Cyprus spy-flights over to a corporate contractor, presumably in an attempt to make it look as though the government isn’t responsible for it all.

And what do we all know about corporate contractors, from our experience with the NHS, with the water companies, with transport, and government agencies…?

They are unprofessional, they are irresponsible, they are there purely to extract money and power. They mess up everything they’re paid to do, and that doesn’t worry them. In this case, it’s why we now have incontrovertible proof of what RAF in Cyprus has been used for, because the contractors failed to hide their flight-paths over Gaza as the RAF had been doing.

Corporations are many-layered, endlessly manipulative and endlessly secretive organisations so any attempt whatsoever to second-guess them, to hold them to account or to insist on their abiding by the law is utterly hopeless.

Nothing can save us now unless we tear up corporate law and get our governments actually running for the sake of, and according to the interests of, people and planet. Half-measures and treating the symptoms are as good a way of losing the battle as doing nothing.

Everybody knows that, don’t they?

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