Still Not Quite Worthy Of Us

Despite their shared British values and exalted status as His Majesty's Government's favourite fundamentalist head-choppers, the sensible moderates of the House of Saud have declined to follow Team Starmer's robust example in abetting the Persian Crusade. Naturally, the decision is motivated entirely by self-interest: having agreed a deal with Iran to safeguard Saudi oil exports, the House of Saud has chosen to ignore the great moral lesson, embodied in both the Trumpster and the CEO of Team Starmer, that one's pledges should never be worth the paper they are written on. By contrast with Britain's stalwart capitulation, the Saudi régime refused to allow use of its bases and airspace even for wink-wink defensive operations in the Strait of Hormuz, and does not even seem to regard Iran's reckless retaliations as significantly more sinful than such little indiscretions as the Trumpster administration's opening schoolgirl massacre.