Spreading Our Global Goodness

As might be expected in a massacre at which Her Majesty's Government has so enthusiastically connived, a Saudi aid plan for Yemen seems to have more than a touch of Britishness about it. Our allies in the head-chopping House of Saud have promised to open key ports so that supplies can be brought in; naturally, in merely real-world terms this means something less than actually opening the ports. A United Nations plan is already in existence, but the head-chopping House of Saud has suggested that the UN's energies might be better concentrated on rooting out weapons supplied by Iran, which are so much less humanitarian than those supplied by Britain. Meanwhile, Her Majesty's Government has maintained its usual level of constructive and decisive action by trying to point the UN security council finger at Iran and being vetoed by the beastly Russians.