Beyond Appeasement

Although mere experts have greeted Bolsonaro's policy of turning the Amazon into savannah with their usual un-entrepreneurial pessimism, Her Majesty's Government remains as hot, inflamed and open as ever for a money-grubbing schmooze with ecocide. Being a business itself, Britain's leading liberal newspaper treats with due discretion the Recrudescent Imperium's latest contribution to the general meltdown; but it does manage to report that the aptly-surnamed Conor Burns has been grinning and gladhanding in Brasilia and praising the government's quasi-Brexitannic "legitimate ambitions to bring prosperity to its people."