Taki Taki

High life | 16 July 2015

Or are we so cowardly that we cannot call a spade a spade?

I have signed an affidavit for a hearing in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was, to my knowledge, married to Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who later became king of that ghastly country until he ate himself to death. His son Abdul Aziz, a fat playboy who drifts around the world with an entourage of 150 bootlickers, is challenging Janan’s claims, which, in the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, ‘he would, wouldn’t he?’ Saudi camel-drivers-turned-self-proclaimed royals do not like to pay for the mess they leave behind their ample posteriors, and they definitely do not like to pay for their women. (I’ve often wondered if they really think women stay with them for their looks.) This Abdul Aziz is trying to do down a decent lady who swears that she was secretly married to his old man by claiming state immunity from the British legal system. Janan Harb is a British citizen who managed to avoid ending up in a Saudi harem, a harem being just another name for enslaved women. Yet when Fahd died, Prince Charles was among the first to genuflect in front of those uppity camel-drivers. As were Obama and most European leaders.

What is it with us? Are we so cowardly that we cannot call a spade a spade? That’s why my hero of the week is my friend Julian Seymour, who correctly remonstrated with a ludicrous PR woman who had dragged two Qataris to the late Duke of Marlborough’s memorial service. Let’s read the riot act to these kleptocrats who are using the trillions that belong to their people to buy us out of everything we once owned and cherished.

But it’s much worse than you think. Forget the enslavement of women. Forget the rape by a member of the entourage of the Saudi family.

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