Racial Myopia

In the market of national morals, aside from the pragmatic entrepreneurialism of John Bull and the insidious subtlety of the Heathen Chinee, the cynicism of the Russian Bear surely has few rivals. Despite Her Majesty's Government's long record of adroit diplomacy with the Brusso-Strasbourg Nazi-Soviet dictatorship; despite the endless history of London's square dealing with the colonies in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, to say nothing of such lesser breeds as the Chagossians; despite the restrained rhetoric, quasi-oligarchic ethics and late-Romanov intellectual flair of the National Johnson and his chums, the beastly Russians still seem to think that the presence of a large and hostile alliance on their doorstep might imply some sort of legitimate security concern. Have they learned nothing from history and Mr Churchill's recent victory?