Long has the sun done set on the enterprise once known as Great Britain — aka “England, Mother England,” as in “Merrie Olde,” “sceptered isle” and all that.
With the flag over Buckingham Palace at half staff in national mourning for sharia- dictator Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (a “reformer,” a “real progressive,” according to Fox News, practically a sufragette), the Telegraph reports that a senior BBC official has deemed that the men who stormed Charlie Hebdo’s office and slayed the staff and others are not to be called “terrorists.”