Dry Legalities

Tackling the climate emergency is all very well, but certain native passions are inclined to stray beyond the limits of what is moderate and sensible. The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, which Her Majesty's Government's anti-woke Ministry for Wogs, Frogs and Huns presumably still calls the New Hebrides, is conspiring with vexatious international lawyers to attempt, of all things, impactful change, despite the implications for all those nice wealth creators at BP and Shell. Fortunately, in its South Seas impetuosity Vanuatu has chosen to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, which would carry legal weight and moral authority and would therefore be non-binding on anyone who mattered and Global Britain.