Moderate Proportionality, Sensible Reasonability

Britain stands ready and willing to engage in further wog-bombing unless Johnny Arab learns to behave himself; and apparently this is news. Fishy Rishi rejected the Houthis' malign imputation that their attacks in the Red Sea had anything to do with the Righteous State's assault on the Palestinians, so presumably we have not long to wait before Fishy Rishi exults that the Allied airstrikes are preventing another Holocaust. Though not sought in advance, Parliamentary approval was his to demand, albeit with some small regret from the Bullingdon Club's accomplice in the Post Office scandal, and a belated Christmas cracker motto from the leader of His Majesty's Agreeable Opposition: "scrutiny is not the enemy of strategy" so long as it's the Right's kind of scrutiny. With his usual impeccable timing, Fishy Rishi proclaimed the necessity "to strike at speed … to protect the security of these operations" just as the Houthis disobligingly demonstrated that operations remain as insecure as before. Fortunately, in an election year for both the major Allied powers we can safely dismiss the likelihood that any genuine concern for international security enters into the matter. The Reverend Sir Anthony of the Most Servile Confabulation of the Stocking-Top did a good bit of wog-bombing in his time, and it may still occasionally be possible to find a Team Starmer apparatchik willing to hint at how many elections he won.