Truss On Manoeuvres

Among the more endearing traits of the master race is its habit of dispensing helpful advice to the lesser breeds on how they might best overcome their moral shortcomings. The Heathen Chinee have reacted with predictable ingratitude to the latest finger-wagging by Britain's Minister for Wogs, Frogs and Huns, who proclaimed that "countries must play by the rules. And that includes China." Self-evidently, it excludes NATO and the United Kingdom, whose government cannot even play by its own rules, let alone the petty-minded provisions of international treaty. To be fair, the lecture was doubtless aimed less at the Heathen Chinee themselves than at those clear-eyed, clean-limbed cadres which will elect the next leader of the Conservative Party. In military strategy one should always provide for a flexible response, and the sacred will of the people may dictate at any moment that Operation Save Big Dog should smoothly and sinuously metamorphose into Operation Promote Silly Bitch.