Verdi’s town stages Women’s Day red-shoe protest

Herbie G says:

UN’s ‘International Women’s Day’. How praiseworthy that they should be devoting a whole day to promoting women’s rights. Does that include women in Iran, a UN member state, who are being terrorised, beaten up and killed by Iran’s Morality Police every day? Then there’s the UN’s peaceable member state Ukraine, where their fellow UN member state, Russia, has been pursuing a totally unprovoked genocidal war for nine months? And not only is Russia a member state but a member of the UN Security Council, whose defined purpose is to maintain world peace! And the same Russia, as a member of the Security Council, can veto any motion of censure by the UN member states.

It’s a pity that Franz Kafka, Gilbert and Sullivan are no longer with us – they could make a masterpiece of comic entertainment centred on the UN – the organisation whose principal function is to guarantee world peace.

I am the last person in the world to praise the odious Donald Trump but I seem to recollect that in the early days of his presidency he threatened to expel the UN from the USA, and I wholly supported that. It should be relocated to Moscow or Beijing. It’s entirely unfit for purpose. Yes, they do wonderful work for refugees, most of them created by their own supine ineptitude.