I had expected to be able to write a good, long, ranting blog entry about CaMoron’s speech on Europe today: I had expected it to be something I could get my teeth into, and give my keyboard a good hammering over. Alas, it wasn’t to be, and now we must wait even longer for this long awaited speech. Truth be told, though, the fact that he backed out of it kind of scares me: you might be expecting me to accuse him of cowardice, and of using this emergency to get out of giving a speech he was afraid to deliver. But I think that would be too easy and too simplistic. If we give CaMoron the benefit of the doubt, if we assume he would have given this speech if he could, then the current emergency in north Africa is huge – it could well be even bigger than the media is currently letting on. Of course, you could point out that we have a lot of oil interests in north Africa, so it’s natural a Tory PM would be very concerned with what goes on there. But the reports also suggest that this is a new front on the war on terror, and that al-qa’ida could now establish a base in north Africa. Surely that must be cause for concern, no matter how cynical one tries to be.