Humanitarian Concerns

Another brilliant chapter in the war against extremism has been gloriously inscribed by Her Majesty's Government's favourite moderates. Albion's perennial candidates for Most Tolerable Mahometans, the head-chopping House of Saud, executed thirty-seven people, mostly from the kingdom's Shia minority, by chopping their heads off; and then had two of the corpses displayed on a pole as a warning to any others who might be thinking of doing something barbaric. As one would expect from a group of coloureds receiving favourable treatment from Whitehall, the head-chopping House of Saud is among the world's most enthusiastic practitioners of terminal assertiveness in matters of law and order, and has shown a certain buccaneering entrepreneurial verve in defying the global trend towards a decrease in executions. Doubtless Her Majesty's Government will be making the usual enlightened representations; after all, as long as the head-chopping House of Saud is benefiting from British hardware and British training in its crusade against the Yemeni threat, it hardly seems humane that its post-torture decapitations are apparently being performed without recourse to British cutlery.