At last decency has prevailed, and the Queen has stripped Robert Mugabe of his honorary knighthood. What’s more, Andy Burnham has blocked the Zimbabwe cricket team’s tour of England next year.
As far as the plight of the Zimbabwean people is concerned, these are only the tiniest of gestures. But sometimes small gestures can signal an immense tidal shift in attitude and action. Hopefully, these will mark the start of a much less forgiving approach to the Mugabe regime by our government.
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