They Learned it From the Best

While Britain's great and good foregather to rah-rah the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, with which commenced the ultimate decisive triumph of British values and Muscular Christianity over the barbarism of the Hun, Britain's favourite Islamic fundamentalists have been so considerate as to add their own contribution to the general merriment. The British-armed and British-trained holy warriors of the head-chopping House of Saud have killed almost thirty children in an airstrike, at least some of whom might well have grown up to be terrorists or even migrants; so although the means were messy, the end may well be considered by the dispassionate observer to have been not altogether outside the bounds of civilised human collateral damage. This is certainly the view of Britain's owners in the Trumpster administration, who have urged the head-chopping House of Saud to investigate its own activities with the usual unsparing thoroughness. Similarly forthright is the view of Britain's leading liberal newspaper, whose headline has swaddled the unpleasant business in a flurry of cosy indirection.