More British, More Right

Among the many wondrous virtues of patriotism is, of course, the way it can so vastly improve the lives of the simple-minded with nothing more than a rumble of rhetoric and the wave of a flag. Few minds are simpler than that of the Deputy Johnson, who has gone goose-stepping to the Rothermere Daily Stürmer for a bit of a yap about plans to efficientise human rights by abolishing the less convenient ones and then daubing a Union Jack on those that remain. An enemy of the people at Amnesty International, the very name of which is a blatant betrayal both of national pride and of world-beating wog-baiting, advised that in thinking of the Human Rights Act people should "think of Hillsborough, or the successful challenge to police banning women from holding a vigil for Sarah Everard, or how the government will be forced to hold a proper inquiry into its handling of the Covid pandemic." In all fairness, it seems unlikely that Her Majesty's Government has forgotten about any of them.