Unaided

Some countries are going to cancel aid to Madagascar.

Well, Britain is way ahead of them.

For some years now, we have paid not one penny in aid to, nor even maintained an embassy in, one of the poorest countries on earth, the world’s fourth-largest island, heavily and increasingly populated, British until 1980, strategically located both in relation to Indian Ocean piracy and in relation to the emergence of Africa, and an obvious potential member of a New New Commonwealth, headed by the British monarch with all that that entails, but open to anywhere having no dispute with any of the Queen’s or her successor’s Realms and Territories, and desiring to take a (basically and ultimately Christian) stand against globalisation, the American military-industrial hegemony that Americans themselves have now rejected at the polls, European federalism, Islam, and the rise of China, all of which are closely connected.