They Can't Say Anything These Days Either

Mere weeks after our own National Haystack was persecuted for implying that Indians and Pakistanis are all pretty much the same sort of beast, an Indian news channel has been penalised for using its UK service to propagate the view that all Pakistanis are terrorists. Apparently a Hindu-nationalist mutation of the Murdoch virus, Republic TV started out discussing India's recent efforts to get ahead of Global Britain in the space race; of course it's only natural that the conversation should eventually have turned to the beggary of the Pakistani people and the banditry of their scientists. Nevertheless, the British regulator has seen fit to fine the broadcaster for airing graphically violent images and uncontextualised hate speech, and the broadcaster has responded with a pitying shake of the head over the sahib race's imperviousness to a context of friendly irony. It certainly comes to a pretty Khyber pass when even the wogs aren't allowed to be not-a-racist-but. Was it altogether in vain that the East India Company expended so much British blood and treasure bringing Magna Carta to the heathen?