Great Game: Britain Crashes Out

A nation responsible for unparalleled cultural achievements dating back many centuries has responded with irritation to the posturing of a rogue nuclear state with a long and squalid history of destabilising other countries and a despotic government dominated by a hysterically corrupt fundamentalist oligarchy. Relations between Iran and Britain have been difficult for some time, despite efforts by the mad mullahs of Whitehall to ensure that the quasi-foreign consequences of Anglo-Persian miscegenation remain properly imprisoned. The new ambassador to Iran has been photographed posing in Churchillian mode alongside his counterpart from Russia, a country whose relationship with Iran is almost as happy as Britain's, thereby continuing that suave and subtle phase of British international diplomacy which began with the appointment of the National Haystack to the Ministry for Wogs, Frogs and Huns.