Doing Our Part

Some lucky little people in Yemen could be in for yet another invigorating dose of British fair play. Not content with the straight dealing of its arms sales to the head-chopping House of Saud, nor yet with the unpretentious decency of its cuts to the aid budget, Her Majesty's Government is now considering designating the Houthi rebels a terrorist organisation. Since this policy was sane and compassionate enough for the Trumpster and his hydrophobic head-tribble last year, it is of course only natural that the British Home Office should be slavering to follow suit. Proscribing the rebels as terrorists would prevent funds getting through to the areas they control, allowing up to half a million families to make the happy transition to what the late Madeleine Albright would term a price worth paying. Perhaps it might even incentivise those meddling aid organisations to get out of Yemen and do something useful instead, like helping that nice Mrs Sunak with her money troubles.