Boris Johnson speaking to the nation from hospital: "This virus represents a radicalised small minority that is against our way of life, and what we stand for: liberal values and tolerance. It wants to undermine our health system and our economy as a wealthy country. It's has so far killed many thousands of innocent people. We will all stand together in the fight against hate and evil and make Britain great again." We don't think that such a malign entity represents China or the Chinese people and we will continue to work with our Chinese friends to eradicate this terror that has brought the world economy to a standstill." Satire by me, N.M.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51