What if Cassandra was right?

 Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist who got a bee in her bonnet about Russian infiltration of our government. She was convinced that Russia were manipulating the UK, through social media, to vote Brexit and make the country weaker. She believed Nigel Farrage (and other unknown politicians, maybe including Boris) were in the pay of the Russians and the sole aim was to destabilise Europe. There was a suggestion that Trump was their man too.

When she broke the Cambridge Analytica/ Facebook story the knives were out for her. People called her a crazy cat woman and gave the impression that she had spent too long in the basement of a Guardian office and gone mad, seeing conspiracy everywhere. They called her Cassandra.

At the time, I thought this was a weird title to choose because in Greek Mythology, Cassandra was actually right. If only they’d listened to her.

She has been personally sued by businessman Aaron Banks (which is odd for a journalist, as the ultimate responsibility is the editor’s and the paper, as publisher) and after a 5 day trial we are now waiting to see what the Hight Court judgement is.

However, if she was right then history will say that Covid saved us. Russia didn’t mount their attack while Trump was still in power. It also happened after partygate , when the British public weren’t quite so trusting of Bojo’s ability to lead and even Sarah Vine was beginning to question her ex-husband’s sanity. Coronavirus might have derailed the division of Europe project. Maybe China didn’t really fancy sharing a bed with the Russians after all.

Obviously, this could be wrong and it’s all coincidence with no planning. Sailsbury poisonings were just a couple of tourists trying to visit a cathedral and not a chemical attack, Lebdev is a really nice chap with a villa in Italy, who uses his money to throw great parties. The prime minister having meetings with an ex KGB officer after ditching his security is nothing to worry about. It’s all perfectly fine

I wonder what the history books will say? Bloody Cassandra, being right again.