HOW many people, I wonder, have read the two volumes of the real history of the Western world, written by Arthur Findlay just after the Second World War about how when people can't read or write

you can tell them anything and they will believe it.

Those days are, in the West at least, long behind us.

However, it saddens me that some people choose as a matter of choice to remain ignorant. With the huge choice of news programmes on the TV nowadays there is no excuse for not being aware of

what is going on in the world in our name.

I have been reading for the last two weeks about how Malvern is tearing itself apart, one group being in favour of housing Syrian refugees in the town, another against.

None of them has tackled the real issue, and that is that we have a puppet  government who can no longer think for itself. If it is not taking orders from the EU, it is taking orders from the US.

For example, the bombing of Syria. It is this country, along with the States, that is creating the refugees in the first place.

Our Prime Minister can't make up his mind who he should bomb – the legally elected Syrian government one minute, or the US-created terrorists the next.

Rather than squabbling among ourselves about this human catastrophe manufactured  by the Western powers we should collectively be telling our leaders to stop killing people that they don't like only for them to be replaced by puppets that are even worse than the original – Iraq and Libya, to name but two.

Finally, we have learned nothing from the Iraq war. It was the US who created the lie about "weapons of mass destruction". They never existed in the first place and they knew it.

They go on telling us lies, the Ukraine being the most recent example of that.

Perhaps Cameron should be the one to apologise to these Syrian families, for the misery he has caused not only to them, but to the rest of Europe which now has to accommodate all these poor refugees.

Bill Kovacs

Malvern