The British Government's Response to the Sudanese Conflict

There is a sense in the coverage of the British government's response to this, that their response came too late and they appeared to have been caught on the hop. Do you think it seems sort of parochial and very small to be sitting here as the media is talking about the priority of getting British people out? Does that pale in significance, really, beside the crisis itself in Sudan? Well, looking at it with my kind of Africa correspondent hat on, having lived on a continent for the best part of seven years, the answer has got to be yes. I mean, it does look pretty parochial. On the other hand, every nation has scrambled to look after its own