I'm back.

Stirred into action, as it happens, by this shocking story in the Guardian:

Leading British banks have been accused of operating a covert embargo of Cuba out of deference to the US. The accusation comes after revelations that Lloyds TSB and Barclays Bank have been telling clients who trade with Cuba to take their accounts elsewhere.

Oh no! Can it really be the case that commercial organisations with US ties are considering that it might be judicious for them to comply with US law?

And can it really be the case that they are not willing to break US law in order to support a country which imprisons dissidents - a country so popular with its inhabitants that they are willing to risk death in order to escape by boat?

Oh, the outrage of it!

They'll be refusing to trade with Zimbabwe next.