Poor Zimbabwe.

According to the BBC it has been ‘plagued’ (origin of said plagues not described) by the world’s highest inflation, as well as acute food and fuel shortages.

Newsflash: These phenomena are not caused by ‘plagues’.

They are caused both in general and in Zimbabwe’s case in particular by truly stunning and sustained Bad Government.

The BBC’s use of the plague metaphor in this context somehow craftily shifts the responsibility for Zimbabwe’s calamitous plight on to … no-one?