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01/02/2006:

"Last year, the politics of global inequality finally came of age"

...So if the politics of global inequality has come of age, what are its ingredients? At a political level, the rhetoric is grandiose. Any aspiring world statesman now has to deliver speeches on child mortality and talk about female literacy rates in the developing world as if they a) knew what they were on about and b) spent the early hours worrying about it. There's a new expectation of government. That's a step change from the era of Reagan and Thatcher.
guardian.co.uk

The adjustment of imperial rhetoric makes the reality all the more lethal.