Defensive Decency

Whether inducing the poor towards greater thrift or empowering the disabled to earn their bare existence, British generosity is usually a prudent, penny-pinching affair; and rarely more so than in the matter of international aid. Once an extravagant seven-tenths of one per cent of national income, the master race's contribution has been cut to a bountiful three-tenths of one per cent, which now appears on course to be delivered after the time-honoured Team Starmer fashion. Being morally above considerations of soft power and pragmatically committed to profitable procurement for a third world war within half a decade, His Majesty's Government can hardly be expected to concern itself with dispensing pocket money to a lot of wogs who will just need bombing into proper economic values anyway.