Jolly Good Chums

A corrupt authoritarian state with a history of military aggression and a violent loathing of dissent has invited the crown prince of Westminster's favourite head-chopping fundamentalist theocracy for a cosy chat and a bit of a snigger about tree-huggers. On the fifth anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's chastisement, Mohammed bin Salman and Fishy Rishi will doubtless have a good deal to talk about, such as the relative merits of decapitation and indefinite imprisonment when dealing with journalists of an insufficiently fascistic persuasion. Also high on the agenda will be commiserations over the sabotage of a British arms deal by the beastly Euro-wogs: BAE Systems sold forty-eight jets for peacekeeping duties in Yemen, but apparently failed to take into account that a third of Eurofighter components are manufactured in Europe (if only the Strasbrussels dictatorship had thought to put some sort of clue in the name), where some people take a less constructive attitude than Global Britain to the ongoing Saudi rampage.