IF any of the exceedingly hard-pressed staff at Glasgow Airport had time to read the Glasgow Herald on the morning of the airport’s opening, they would have been cheered. The paper’s leading article on Monday, May 2, 1966, argued that the decision to build the airport was the right one. It could even be, in its way, “as crucial a decision as many that had found a permanent place in civic history – from the dredging of the Clyde to the introduction (and eventually abolition) of the trams”, the leader continued. It demonstrated there there was still a place for the kind of civic enterprise which made made Glasgow renowned in the previous century as one of Europe’s most progressive cities.
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While media focuses on Russian money, UK ministers allow Gulf tyrannies to invest £140bn in Britain Molly Antigone Hall and Mark Curtis
Investments in Britain by Russian oligarchs, often involving “dirty money”, have been widely condemned across the UK’s political spectrum as Boris Johnson’s government identifies Vladimir Putin as a growing threat to the UK.
However, a far larger proportion of Britain’s assets is being bought up by the UK’s oil-rich repressive allies in the Middle Eastern Gulf states which own over five times more of Britain’s economy than Russia, figures show.
The Gulf regimes, which are run by unelected Kings or Emirs who routinely torture dissidents and ban political parties, elections and independent media, have been allowed to buy up over £140-billion in UK assets.
Investments in Britain by Russian oligarchs, often involving “dirty money”, have been widely condemned across the UK’s political spectrum as Boris Johnson’s government identifies Vladimir Putin as a growing threat to the UK.
However, a far larger proportion of Britain’s assets is being bought up by the UK’s oil-rich repressive allies in the Middle Eastern Gulf states which own over five times more of Britain’s economy than Russia, figures show.
The Gulf regimes, which are run by unelected Kings or Emirs who routinely torture dissidents and ban political parties, elections and independent media, have been allowed to buy up over £140-billion in UK assets.
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