Narrow escape for Royal Navy

The BBC (caveat more or less everyone), found by Boing Boing, alleges that the Dutch government is trying to prevent a (literally) born sailor from sailing.

Once upon a time Miss Dekker’s ambition would have been celebrated (despite having been to the Netherlands I can’t remember whether or not they ever had an equivalent of Blue Peter) as evidence of the ‘diversity’ of the numerous accomplishments demonstrated by the Dutch.

Unfortunately nowadays ‘diversity’ no longer has this meaning; it now appears to mean ‘everyone, regardless of their race, colour, creed, gender alignment, etc. etc. ad naus being hammered down flush into identical, politically-determined cultural forms from which individual ambition and achievement are rigorously excluded’.

I suppose that though we British, groaning under the same yoke, might sympathise with Miss Dekker personally, we might comfort ourselves with the thought that at least now she won’t be sailing up the Medway and burning the Royal Navy in its own dockyard, like one of her predecessors.