Mugabe stripped of his knighthood

Water

Great move.

Bruce Robertson

So why was he given it in the first place?

Perry, always a sucker for forthright displays of power

Oh WOW!!!

How can he withstand this censure? - and after how long since he stated his vindictive, eviltude. (There, with a kind of picturesque but helpful Bush-ism thrown in.)

Wadi Amin

I'm quite distressed to hear that: a) he ever had one; and b) that those who knew he had one have taken so long to strip him of it.

Augustus

Great! the more international disgrace the better.

BTW, 28 tanks, painted white with UN logos have been spotted amassed on the Mozambique border.

Salome

I wish the Pope would pull out his finger and anathematize the murdering so-and-so.

rv

That's showed him! Why don't people realise that Mugabe will be pleased with this move. All his propaganda blames Britain for everything just like Castro blames the USA. We have just helped him.

I know it his hard to face but if we can't do anything useful we should do nothing. Let him take the blame for his own governance. I wish the MDC hadn't pulled out. Why put your supporters through such pain for nothing.

John

Trust Perry to have a nasty swipe at Bush. You should be writing for the Guardian - or maybe you already are, or perhaps drawing those Stuermer-like cartoons.

Adam McNestrie

The way in which our politicians talk about Zimbabwe and the way our press covers it disconcert me. They concern me because there is something horribly empty to it all. We are listening to words with nothing behind them, ideals which are completely disconnected from the world. I think that there is a tendency for Britain, with its quick liberal conscience, to work itself into a fervour when we hear about unfreedom and human suffering. We ache to do something about it.

My problem is that this does us more good than the people of Zimbabwe: it is essentially inward-looking. No matter how much we believe it, no matter how much Mugabe’s regime appals us, Britain is not going to have a decisive influence. A political discussion which has reach a pitch of fever that implies that we can is almost distasteful. We have to acknowledge the realities of geopolitics and the limitations of British agency. Simon Jenkins was, I fear, right yesterday when he said that we could do nothing but give food.

To see more of my views read my blog, Just who the hell are we? on wordpress.com, at:
http://adammcnestrie.wordpress.com/

Ian C

I bet he's really, really cross about this and will worry deeply what (now) plain old Mrs Mugabe will say.

Frank Pulley

He should be stripped of his cojones and hung upside down from a lampost like Mussolini. His medal, complete with the photo he had taken with HM and Prince Philip should be hung beside him (and his b-x).

Familiar Clown

Frank, too late for the medal, if he's got any sense he's already decided to flog it on ebay. Interesting provenance. Should fetch a bob or two.
(Bob. Geddit?)

Perry

No John, - sorry, certainly not a swipe at Bush

Frank Pulley

Familiar Clown

Geddit? What a Mugabe if I didn't!

Familiar Clown

Frank, Lol(ly)