And it’s not just the executions, crucifixions and state-sponsored murders. The Saudis have been waging a war in another country, Yemen, every bit as bad as any other war for which you might sanction any other oil-producing state. Russia itself did and is doing some pretty horrible stuff in Syria to which we turned a blind, or at least a short-sighted eye. And there’s talk of relaxing sanctions against another ghastly regime in oil-rich Venezuela. I think they call it ‘realpolitik’; or, forget your principles as we need them more than, or at least as much as, they need us.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
