Where is Princess Latifa Al Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai's autocratic ruler?

[Hotwired]

Do you mean

Do I mean that this story is a toothless whinge to pad the schedule, of course I do.

It's a slow news day, it's the BBC using its news channels to promote its own Panorama program which is abuse of the service but presumably the alternative news stories were serious drivel.

The sheik is extremely rich and powerful and needs to give zero ***** about outsiders views on laws and customs of SA or if he's locking up his daughters which is actually par for the course for a traditional muslim.

Successful distraction if it gets your attention with a false importance headline story.

It's an average day in SA and of all the options to choose from, a princess being locked up in a palace is a hell of an issue to get the morals out for.

 

[GIBURROWS]

Doesn't she have Facebook or Instagram , at her age shouldn't she be tiktokking the world with updates?

 

[Gerard]

He has 25 kids, must have been putting it about a bit.

 

[Energize]

Is that how it works.

How many times removed from something unpleasant do you have to be to have clean hands and clean conscience.

Everything is connected and some point you have to make a rational decision based on risks and benefits.

Which is why the UK has trade with SA worth billions every year.

Well not funnelling tons of money to the country thus endorsing the brutal regime would be a good start. Just use common sense.

These greedy dictators would take notice if their wallets started to take a hit. Unfortunately the price of life is cheap to the UK government and large corporations.

 

[Angilion]

Well not funnelling tons of money to the country thus endorsing the brutal regime would be a good start. Just use common sense.

These greedy dictators would take notice if their wallets started to take a hit. Unfortunately the price of life is cheap to the UK government and large corporations.

It wouldn't make any difference to those dictators - Russia or China would supply the dodgy deals instead and care even less about conditions in those countries. So it's common sense for the UK to do it instead. Ugly, but common sense politically.

 

[stockhausen]

. . . but common sense politically.

I think you mean "Commercially"?
Politics ALWAYS follows financial reward and almost always trumps ethics.

 

[FoxEye]

It wouldn't make any difference to those dictators - Russia or China would supply the dodgy deals instead and care even less about conditions in those countries. So it's common sense for the UK to do it instead. Ugly, but common sense politically.

Yet otoh we expect people to listen when we preach human rights to China?

Can't have it both ways. We should stop selling arms to Saudi as a matter of ethics.

Or stop preaching human rights to China. It's rank hypocrisy.

 

[GIBURROWS]

Yet otoh we expect people to listen when we preach human rights to China?

Can't have it both ways. We should stop selling arms to Saudi as a matter of ethics.

Or stop preaching human rights to China. It's rank hypocrisy.

But that's the British government / monarchy way!

 

[Angilion]

I think you mean "Commercially"?
Politics ALWAYS follows financial reward and almost always trumps ethics.

No, I meant what I wrote - politically. There's a lot of overlap, but they're not the same thing. Politics is about power, which is often but not always about money.