According to Kim Howells the UK and Saudi Arabia can unite around "shared values". What would they be then? Wahabism? Misogyny? Torture? It's particularly amusing coming from Howells because last summer he appeared on David Aaronovitch's programme about the general indecency of the left complaining about banners which proclaimed "We are Hezbollah" which he, rather bizarrely, characterised as "the military wing of the Iranian government" which doubtless pissed off the Iranian army no end. I hold no particular brief for Hezbollah but if one is going to object on principled grounds to reactionary theocratic politics, one ought not to suck up shamelessly to the Saudis.
Howells remarked: "Some commentators will focus on our differences and ask how we can talk of shared values." No shit, Sherlock.
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