Tuned Out

Forty-seven young musicians, exiled from Afghanistan by the heirs of Western civilisation, have concluded a tour of Europe by being refused visas to trouble the peace of the realm with their cacophonous Asiatic dissonances; and in a rare time-saving touch the Ministry for Wog Control has simultaneously refused to consider an appeal against the refusal. The youth orchestra's members have refugee status in Portugal, which must indubitably have counted against them; perhaps almost as much as the hygiene risk of performing freely before the non-English-speaking peoples and the moral taint of holding a concert at the Hamas-run Human Rights Council, whose presence in Geneva constitutes so blatant an insult to the banks and their sacred Nazi gold. Patriots on the mainland will no doubt rejoice that standards of decency and fair play at the Ministry for Wog Control have now attained such exalted levels of Britishness as to rival those of the Taliban.