Moderate Justice

Everyone who believes in the virtues of free, cantankerous and responsible journalism will be gratified and relieved at the head-chopping House of Saud's rapid and efficient solution of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The dissident journalist was killed in the Saudi consulate at Istanbul last October and his body has never been found; and as with the ongoing British-assisted slaughter in Yemen, the head-chopping House of Saud seems to have marked its own homework with near-perfect adherence to British values. Khashoggi has received a worthy monument in the fact that such figures as Crown Prince Mohammed and his former special adviser have been cleared of all wrongdoing as naturally and inevitably as if the inquiry had taken place in Britain.