Saudi Arabia – oil or ethics, a hard choice

Realpolitik often leads to dirty deals as harsh pragmatism demands solutions to intractable problems. Which is Boris Johnson’s excuse as he bowls along like a ball of tumbleweed across the international stage to the Middle Eastern oil producing kingdoms to persuade them to increase oil production to lower prices which have rocketed since Russia invaded Ukraine.  Opposition leader Keir Starmer acidly remarked that “going cap in hand from dictator to dictator is not an energy stra