I told you so

It’s jolly nice to be proved right about everything

The most important, and comforting, thing to emerge from all that Wiki-Leaks business was that, by and large, we were right. All the things we suspected, or knew either instinctively or through common sense, were proved to be correct. Prince Andrew — arrogant, rude and with the IQ of a corgi? Yep. The oil company Shell effectively runs Nigeria? Sure thing. Gulf state Arab leaders are a tad duplicitous? No kidding, bub.

It is always uplifting to discover that you were right all along, and that, in secret at least, the establishment agrees with you. It may well be that by the time you read this there will be no more WikiLeaks, given that the penalty for revealing universally acknowledged truths is a spell inside a Swedish prison. But even without it, 2010 was a fine year for debunking establishment propaganda, destroying officially approved shibboleths and confirming that the things we’d always thought were right all along.