I don't know much about Saudi Arabia. When I was a lad, it was the place to earn big bucks in the oil industry, I even went for an interview once but they effectively talked me out of going, probably because they could see my heart was not really in it. Good job really, because the more I read about it the less likely I will be spending a holiday there.
The latest one to add to the '100 reasons not to visit Saudi Arabia' concerns the sentencing to death of a poet for renouncing Islam, although if you read (and believe) the small print it doesn't look like that is the case anyway. More likely he's upset a few clergy and they exaggerate some statement he made for their own justification. Whatever it is, it doesn't sound like he deserves to die for it.
Another topic in the news that has attracted my attention is the intention of a council (was it Stafford?) to charge Park Run users a pound each as a contribution to the running of the park. I think it's specifically the car park, so why they can't just put a parking fee on is beyond me, it just seems like it's an easy way to raise a few quid without doing anything. If they succeed, I hope the park runners go somewhere else and carry on as usual.
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