Britain Stands Alone

As one does when the home front is looking a little creaky, Britain's Head Boy has been having a bit of a posture on the international stage. Daveybloke is very annoyed that certain countries are not living up to their obligations in the fight against Islamic terrorism. Daveybloke believes that Islamic terrorism is a serious matter, quite unlike public health, climate change or anything else he may have fibbed about. Daveybloke believes that Islamic terrorism is a jolly nasty business, and he might even consider it the new Hitler had he not already awarded those laurels to Vladimir Putin. Daveybloke also believes that certain foreign states are paying ransoms to terrorist kidnappers in order to get their citizens back. Of course, Daveybloke has never really believed in governments spending money to help mere aid workers who should be busy knitting; but money paid to terrorists "goes into arms, it goes into weapons, it goes into terror plots, it goes into more kidnaps," all of which Daveybloke believes could so easily be averted with a bit of wog-bombing and a friendlier weapons market for the more congenial Arab dictatorships.