Crude Evasion

Even as Cressida Dick's boys in blue prepare for a merry weekend arresting Extinction Rebellion protesters in the city of Boris Johnson's child-choking mayoralty, the realm's position on the climate emergency continues to attain new depths of Britishness. Although the Government has announced an alliterative "climate compatibility checkpoint" thingy for prospective profiteers in the North Sea, developments which have already been licensed will not be subject to it and will therefore languish under no particular obligation to show even the most token effort in complying with the Government's non-commitments on the climate. It is fortunate that such non-commitments, comprising for the most part treaties made with foreigners, are by their nature eminently breakable according to common sense, legitimate concerns and doubtless the Freedom of the Seas.