The worrying appointment of former U.N. apparatchik, Iraq war critic and George Soros employee Lord Malloch Brown in Gordon Brown’s new government is to an extent balanced by the welcome appointment of Sir Alan West as Security Minister. Sir Alan, as First Sea Lord, was an outspoken critic of Tony Blair’s scuttling of the Royal Navy, one of the greatest forces for good and liberty the world has seen. (Hat Tip: The Spectator blog once again.)