Minor Losses

Since anonymous sources are all the rage for reliability these days, it's presumably safe to believe the claim that the Minister for Wog Control intervened to prevent the repatriation of British children from Syria. Priti Patel's sense of fair play and Christian belief in punishing children for the sins of their parents was apparently shared by the compliant Sajid Javid and by the Minister for Wog-Bombing, both of whom felt that sixty-odd extra Britons in the country would pose a security risk. Both the children's evacuation and their care in the UK had been planned beforehand; which, considering the Government's usual way of doing things, may well be what ministers found so intimidating.