Yet another tragedy in the crumbling edifice of post-colonial Africa. Sixteen children dead in a Kenyan school fire, and what do we hear from Whitehall? Silence.
The usual moral hand-wringing from the Guardianistas, but no real action. We seem to have forgotten that Britain once built schools in its colonies that stood for centuries. Now we export cheap modular classrooms and call it 'development'.
The Victorian era understood that empire meant responsibility. Today's elites prefer virtue signalling to actual oversight. A British inquiry into safety standards in Kenyan schools is not imperialist meddling; it is a debt of honour.
We built the infrastructure of modernity there. We should ensure it does not become a death trap. Until we treat these tragedies as our own, we are complicit in the body count.
