A gentle 25 minutes run through the gentle drizzle, musing on less than gentle matters.
The UK government has publicly recognised that Saudi Arabia’s human rights record is a major concern, but obviously not yet enough of a concern to get in the way of the continuing massive sale of arms and training in techniques useful for the violent suppression of peaceful protest. After all, this particular trade has been going on since the 1960s and why should the chief whores David Cameron and William Hague be the ones with the moral courage to stem the flow of fat profits for the sake of inconvenient human rights….
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