“The Saudi regime just executed 81 people – so why is Boris Johnson cosying up to it?”

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.