Deals made between those who occupy the highest seats of power are increasingly made without any recourse to public interest, democratic procedures, international protocols or the law of the land in which they are enacted.

While down at the street level, public relations exercises make it look like some 'national interest' is being defended. Some inviolable truth being upheld that must not be challenged.

So it is that Britain, the USA and their closest allies 'condemn' – in a carefully coded public relations exercise – Israel's ruthless murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, but continue to supply these murderers with the latest weapons of modern warfare.