Mau Mau Redux

A very big blob representing thirty-two million teachers and other subversives has communicated, for all the good it will do, with the Department for Profitable Aid expressing concern over legal action by Bridge International Academies. BIA is a private education company which uses such wholesome British cost-cutting methods as rote learning, unqualified staff, substandard conditions and the gradual undermining of the hated public sector. It has run into trouble with some enemies of the people in Uganda; and, in accordance with modern British attitudes towards freedom of speech and political debate, BIA has taken legal action to prevent criticism from the national teaching union in Kenya, and thus has the full support of the Imperial taxpayer. Although social inequality in Africa remains, for the moment, insufficiently severe for the purposes of Her Majesty's Government, there seems every chance that the situation will be quickly remedied.