Not Just One of Those Argies

Brazil's very own Boris Johnson may one day be the first non-African to be indicted at the International Criminal Court, if some humourless people have their way. Jair Bolsonaro, the South American continent's most prominent proponent of the British model of statesmanship, has attracted the ire of lawyers and human rights campaigners with his ripping attitude to red tape and his Johnsonian jollities about the local piccaninnies, who are trampling over the moral rights of mining companies and Macdonald's alike. Jair Bolsonaro's noble emulation of British values extends to dismissing insubordinate statistics even when they are compiled by his own government; so it is to be hoped that his frère et semblable in the British hemisphere will succeed in his efforts to legitimise the Brazilian régime by bestowing appropriate trading privileges.