If, as your editorial states, this country has "a particular responsibility" to protest at the "wave of repression" that has broken out across Zimbabwe, because of Britain`s former position as a "colonial power", the government is going to have its work cut out (Britain has a duty to tell new leader that repression must end now, 12.08.18). Rather than selling arms to the Saudis, and kowtowing to the Israeli government`s every whim, Britain should be interfering with all its might, to end both the slaughter of civilians in Yemen and the continuous undermining of Palestinians` rights. Isn`t that its duty, in view of the role it played in creating the problems developed in the area when it was the dominant imperial power there?
Another part of the world is having over half its population humiliated and insulted every day, but the silence of the protests from Britain, again that area`s "former colonial power", is deafening. Trump can be as racist and misogynist as he wants, but the government`s policy remains one of embarrassing deference. Just because the buffoon of a foreign secretary has gone, does not mean the policy itself has improved. Flexing its muscles in Zimbabwe might tick some boxes in Whitehall, but it would be little compared to what a government with any sort of ethical foreign policy should be doing.
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