Crowded country

‘Nobody would be happier than me if, in 50 years’ time, the Prime Minister, the Archibishop of Canterbury, the Poet Laureate, the Lord Chief Justice, the Regius Professor of History at Oxford and the editor of the Times were all non-white.’ So wrote Stephen Glover last week, just in time to further embarrass James Watson, the Nobel laureate and renowned co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

My first reaction was to wonder how thrilled, say, Kenyans might feel if someone were to write how happy they would be if Kenya’s President, Chief Justice, editor of the Kenya Times and Archibishop of Nairobi were all white in 50 years. The irony is that Africa could be saved from itself if Europeans recolonised it, the way the Chinese are doing as I write. The problem is that Mao’s children are there for the same reasons we used to be. To exploit Africa’s resources.