Airstrip One

Sixth Form Media - 3rd December 2002, 22.02

Here is an article from the Independent that publicises the latest human rights report on Afghanistan and examines British foreign policy in selected dictatorships: Israel (?!), North Korea, Uzbekistan, Turkey (?!), Iran (which it treats as a democracy) etc.

The usual suspects of the Left are juxtaposed with their trading statistics to show that Britain trades with these regimes. It even has a trade surplus with some of these countries. The mantras of the Left: profit before morality; and uncaring capitalism.

What a wheeze!