Doing Well By Doing Good

Whitehall's favourite Islamic fundamentalists have been flying the flag for British business. According to Oxfam, over the thirteen months to last February the head-chopping House of Saud bagged eighty-seven civilians and wounded a hundred and thirty-six more using weapons supplied by the Atlantic special relationship. Thirteen airstrikes on hospitals and clinics were heroically carried out by the Saudi royal air force using British and American jets, thereby relegating any civilian casualties to the status of human shields; this cleansing and chivalrous practice remains suspended, apparently because of pressure from the Corbynite in the White House. Naturally enough in the circumstances, the Department for International Trade considers its duty done.