Peace is Our Profession

Britain's Head Boy has taken a quick break from reminding our European partners who won the war in order to exhort them to think of the little chaps. Having lost the Nobel Peace Prize to the bureaucrats in Brussels, and with a long and fragrant history of using children for political capital, Daveybloke has proposed that infant resources from each of the EU's member states should be sent to Oslo to accept the prize. Assuming one child per country, this would mean a total of twenty-seven children, who could be looked after on the cheap by a couple of harassed primary school teachers or Nick Clegg. Daveybloke was also careful to use the occasion as a means of plugging NATO, which has done so much over the past sixty years to keep the peace in Europe by, in the Tory-warming words of its first secretary general, keeping the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down.