Shame on us.

It's one thing to be evicted from your house for failing to pay the mortgage - it's quite another to be evicted from your country because somebody else wants to use it as an air-base. And yet that's exactly what happened to the inhabitants of Diego Garcia and the other islands of the Chagos archipelago back in the 60s. Since when they and their descendants have been fighting for the right to return. And now the House of Lords has ruled against them. Not exactly our finest hour, I feel.