Hague's real mission: our SAS in Africa
They are a fickle and occasionally treacherous lot, the British.
Casting a wary eye over terrorist expansion into Africa, the Brits are now softening up New Zealand for a new troop commitment, a strategic analyst claims.
After 27,000 New Zealanders sacrificed their lives for them in two world wars the Brits gave us the economic heave-ho.