Thousands of Londoners flock to the Middle East city each year — but behind the façade is a brutally repressive regime where human rights are non-existent
Dubai is home to a quarter of a million British people: dismayed by our high taxation, poor public services and rain, their numbers swell each year. One of the seven emirates of the UAE, Dubai is a polyglot city, a Babel. Ninety per cent of its residents are from elsewhere. The Gulf expert Christopher Davidson calls Dubai the “ultimate liberal economic city state” with “some of the best physical infrastructure in the region”. He adds: “For many years, it’s provided ongoing political…
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