Start the week..

with a moan. Sorry.

Over the weekend the European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso has been in South Africa making friends. He spoke out against the Robert Mugabe's urban clearance and criticised the African Union for not getting involved in a policy which is helping to bring Zimbabwe to its knees. He should also have criticised Tony Blair and George Bush. Once the WMD claims were proved to be lies, Bliar told us that Saddam had removed 200,000 marsh Arabs from their homes and that we needed to remove him on human rights grounds. Well, it is estimated by the UN that 275,000 people have been displaced by Mugabe and thousands have been beaten, imprisoned, starved or simply murdered. And the west has done nothing.

In fact Blair's government is about to return 100 Zimbabweans insisting that the country is safe. I don't think there are words to describe my contempt for the Home Office and the rest of the shower of hypocrites for taking the decision to condemn some of the disadvantaged people on the planet to a future of starvation and brutality. I hope they sleep at night.