I’ve got a new piece up on the otherwise increasingly moribund Sharpener, about the terrifying public and press reaction – both in the UK and in Iran – that risks escalating a minor diplomatic incident into a casus belli. Hopefully sanity will prevail: ideally on both sides, but at the very least on ours…
It's just all a bit daft. I wish the FCO had issued that as their diplomatic response – would've taken the wind from the Iranian pirate sails.