Starmer has dragged the UK into war with iran even further as a strike on Diego Garcia now proves, but the Greens are holding his feet to the fire. Right, so seven Green MPs and peers have written to Keir Starmer and asked the question he has spent this whole crisis trying not to answer, which is whether he has effectively given Donald Trump free rein to wage war from British soil. They have not written some vague little letter saying war is bad, everybody calm down, can we have a nice debate in due course. They have asked what checks are being done on American bombers using RAF Fairford, whether the Ministry of Defence sees target lists before strikes from British territory, whether banned cluster munitions could be loaded at British bases, whether UK-made parts have ended up inside weapons hitting Iran, and how many civilians may already have died from missions launched with British help. You do not need a law degree to hear the problem there. If you are not involved in the strikes, but British bases are being used for strikes, then the word involved is not being used in English any more. It is being used in government. And government English is what you reach for when the plain truth would be too difficult to explain away at the despatch box, but a picture is also worth a thousand words.