Our Civilising Influence

Among the necessary sacrifices involved in working at the highest levels of government is that one is occasionally required to deal with unpleasant régimes, and that in so doing one must occasionally perform certain actions which one may find deeply and inescapably enjoyable. If there is one thing Her Majesty's Government enjoys more than deporting people, it is killing them; mostly in great big batches of exhilarating profitability, but sometimes by sneaky, secretive proxy, at least as long as the Euro-wogs prevent us from stringing up our own malcontents. Having been emphatically if doubtless temporarily stymied in its great work of ethnically cleansing the Windrush generation, the Home Office is now making furtive overtures to the Trumpster's attorney general, to the effect that, while our stance on capital punishment remains more or less against, our stance on capital punishment carried out by the nation's future exclusive source of chlorinated chicken remains more or less whatever. Similarly, Her Majesty's Government has no plans to raise any formal objections to indefinite detention without trial in Guantánamo Bay, although Her Majesty's Government believes Guantánamo Bay should close, presumably on the fair-play grounds that the inmates deserve worse.