Yesterday's Times, once billed as "The top people's paper" and a serious, factual source of news and information but now anybody's tabloid though lacking the excitement of a Page 3 girl to cheer us up, eschewed all that's happening in the world, turmoil all over the place, the UK's war of the week etc and instead chose to devote its entire front page and a double page spread inside to alleged events in Kenya 60 plus years ago.
The evil colonials, many of whom left the UK in search of work or better lives during the depressions of the 1920s and before went on to built roads, railways, harbours, hospitals, schools, dispensaries, airports between bouts of beating their employees, servants etc and during the few hours they had when simultaneously awake and sober. At least that is the image of them relentlessly pedelled by the left for many decades. They should of course been able to rely on sitting at home in Britain "on the welfare" rather than going off to fetid swamps and arid deserts etc. to inconvenience the people there,just as their forefathers should have done instead of heading out to abolish slavery, build basic infrastructure and the like. At the very least once having arrived in their chosen place of discomfort, mosquitos, malaria, tropical diseases, buried a fatally diseased wife and child or two, they should have sat down and run focus groups, introduced alternative,- or any,- voting while filling in their performance target returns. As it was, most had little time for such things due to exhaustion from said building things and ,when there was any spare time ,servant and employee beating and gin swilling of course. The lattter, if it ever happened to any large extent, was unlike any servant or child beating or gin swilling that went on in Britain's bigger houses and schools at the time. And whatever they did was of course totally iniquitous and unacceptable to dinner parties in present day Islington, Notting Hill, North Oxford or on days of righteousness in the media.
Whatever the truth, or degree of truth ,of the allegations of happenings in the Kenya emergency, said evil colonials of the 1950s were of course acting in a way which would be unthinkable in today's world.All that sweat, endless days of hard work for low returns often in very basic and uncomfortable surroundings, building things and generally moving forward as well as, yes, trying to keep law and order and in the case of Kenya avoid massacres of white and black alike.
No,now is completely different. This is the 21st century. Our latest adventures completely different. They are in the name of "democracy" with highly paid people on low hour weeks dictated by EU policy sending other people to bomb roads, railways, harbours and any unfortunate who gets in the way if the recipients are ruled in ways we don't like,- even if we were the rulers' friends last month.
What's in a bit of disruption and destruction if it's all in a good cause even if we have never been democratically asked if that's what we want to do? Why haven't we been asked? Well, it's time consuming, expensive, we wouldn't understand the issues and worst of all for our own freedom touting leaders, we might say "no"
Hang on a minute.
Aren't we trying to export democracy in all its facets?
Muddle? Hypocrisy? Selective memory and conscience? Moral compass gone haywire? Where now folks ? Maybe the Times will tell us.In which case switch to the Sun,-at least the Page 3 girl will be smiling.
