Another Historic Milestone on the Way to Yet More Things That Don't Speak as Loudly as Actions

The G7 nations have agreed to start thinking about cutting greenhouse gases and phasing out fossil fuels by about 2095, or earlier if people start drowning in numbers large enough to inconvenience global wealth creators. The G7 governments committed their successors, or perhaps their successors' successors, to "decarbonise the global economy in the course of this century", but retained maximum business-friendly flexibility by refusing to adopt anything so nasty and repressive as binding targets. This, of course, endows the whole exercise with the game-changing force of Daveybloke's threat not to sack ministers who campaign against the Government's official line on the EU referendum.

Still, given the additional commitment to reduce the number of people living in hunger by five hundred million in the next fifteen years, any doubts that Britain's Head Boy continues to be heard at the heart of Europe can be laid comfortably to rest. From the Bullingdon sense of humour to the Murdoch office boy's open relationship with the truth, the fat sweaty fingerprints of Food Bank Britain's CEO are all over that one.