Fervently British

There are, of course, many dozens or even hundreds of decent Muslims in the world, some of whom have embraced such fundamental British values as royalty, the arms trade and corporal punishment. In 2013, a malefactor in the enviably non-multicultural Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and six hundred lashes for being so intolerant as to set up a website called Free Saudi Liberals. He had the temerity to appeal the decision, so it has now been increased to ten years' imprisonment and one thousand lashes; while his lawyer has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment under that perennial Westminster favourite among legal rubrics, "anti-terrorism". It is possible that the régime is seeking to make an example, as when people in our own Mother of Democracies received custodial sentences for writing words during the 2011 summer riots. The flogging will be administered at the rate of fifty lashes once a week for five months; it is as yet unclear whether the Saudi theocracy's chums in Whitehall consider this praiseworthy or merely acceptable.