Slipping Behind

For all the honorary status conferred by their royal family, their respect for tradition and their robust attitude to human rights, it is clear that Whitehall's favourite Islamic fundamentalists persist in retaining certain undesirable attributes of the swarthy Oriental. Mere months after Fishy Rishi gloriously inaugurated a new British age of oil production, the head-chopping House of Saud has cancelled plans to expand its own kingdom's production. Apparently the Saudis have been spooked by a report from the International Energy Agency which predicts a peak in global oil demand within a few years; doubtless the British government discounted the report as being unduly tainted by expertise, especially as Shell promptly announced its continuing resolve to hasten and exacerbate the climate catastrophe by whatever means profitable. It is to be hoped that Britain's glistening pink Minister for Wogs, Frogs and Huns, himself no mean avatar of the light and crude, will take all necessary pains to inform the Saudis of their duty to the master race, to say nothing of the Communistic perils of a planned economy.