Japan

I have no enthusiasm for Monday morning quarterbacking the apparently sterling efforts being made to minimise the damage suffered to the Fukushima nuclear facility. I grieve for those who have been bereaved by Japan's tragedy, and have every sympathy for those who have lost property.

However, and this just might be me being narky, I do also think there is a danger of lapsing into moral ambivalence when using phrases like 'the country's greatest disaster since World War Two'. As that one was wholly self-inflicted, let us give the recent tragedy its proper due, and refer to it as the country's greatest disaster instead.