Moral Leadership Again

With characteristic Bullingdon Club acuity, Britain's glistening pink Minister for Lesser Breeds has been wagging his chubby little finger at Israel's latest plan to breach international law, and has done so practically a whole day after his own government was found to be planning a breach of international law. A mere handful of decades into its illegal occupation, the Righteous State was duly warned against failing to fulfil its obligations; although the nature of the sanctions which would follow any unacceptable levels of collective punishment remains as yet unclear, especially as the continuing exaltation of Britain's moral stature requires that arms sales not be interrupted. Glistening pinkly, the Minister informed his fellow elevatees to the House of Crooks, Catamites and Corpses that he would personally be ordering the Heathen Chinee to pitch in and help free trade in the Red Sea, presumably by doing their bit towards wog-bombing the Houthis. A diplomatic initiative along such lines would at least have the advantage that the Heathen Chinee minister for guizi may be subtle enough not to snigger too loudly in response.