Shared Values, Decent Arabs

The United Arab Emirates, whose human rights violations are of the tolerable-to-meritorious variety so often found on the Arabian peninsula, have imprisoned several British citizens and a few dozen nonentities because they supposedly shared images of collateral damage from the Persian Crusade. His Majesty's Government, which locks people up for writing words, is clearly in a position to sympathise, and has discreetly declined to say anything against the arrests or to provide effective help to the nefarious migrants. Since the realm of the Trumpster and his head-tribble is proving such an unreliable partner, Team Starmer is to be congratulated on its promptitude in finding another authoritarian petro-state on which to expend its world-beating powers of sycophancy.