Our Rescuers

If further evidence were needed that the brief blip of European cultural dominance is ending, and that the centre of civilisation is moving back to its accustomed Asian home, such evidence may be found in a recent decree by the Prime Minster of Cambodia, who has banned motor vehicles from using musical horns. Should any vehicle be caught with a horn that regurgitates a tunelet and thereby provokes members of the public to inappropriate activity, the police are empowered to enforce summary removal and replacement with a more forthright model. We in the decadent West can only look on with envy, and await the enlightening Asiatic hegemony which may liberate us at last from mobile ringtones and Muzak.