Tell us something we don’t know, mate, I can hear you saying right about now.

Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no matter how used I am to the United Nations’s appalling behaviour, every new instance still manages to stir up my bile.

Just days ago, the British Ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce, delivered a “Joint statement on human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang” to the Third Committee session on the Committee for the elimination of racial discrimination (an appropriate venue in the circumstances, if there ever was one):

Mr President,

I have the honour to read this statement on Xinjiang on behalf of a group 23 countries...