Now They Know What "Full Up" Means

At least forty more British jobs have been saved in the Mediterranean. Thanks to the favourable opportunities for entrepreneurs in the Libyan market, resulting no doubt from the conspicuous lack of red tape and intrusive health and safety regulations, several dozen swarming marauders have been gassed like the rats they resemble. An Italian naval commander, who echoed his country's inglorious part in the Great War by treacherously slinking to the cockroaches' aid, said that the survivors were "crying for their husbands [and] their children who died in the crossing", which just shows how cunningly manipulative a human pestilence can be.