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  • Free Raif Badawi

    Free Raif Badawi

    Saudi Arabia should free Raif Badawi; we urge readers to support a message calling for his release

     

    With rights come responsibilities and with freedom of speech and freedom of expression comes a responsibility to avoid making hateful and false comments. The blogger Raif Badawi is a man who understood that but shockingly in Saudi Arabia, simply for blogging about human rights he was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes in 2014.

     

    The only “crime” committed by Badawi, in reality, was to enable social debate online. In any other domain, this would be regarded as something to be lauded and though Saudi Arabia has rejected international condemnation of criticism of its treatment of this 32-year old as “interference in its internal affairs”, we join those speaking out against this unnecessarily harsh sentence.

     

    Today, at 12 noon EST, a one-time message will be released on social media calling on Saudi Arabia to “do the right thing” and “release the imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi to his family in Canada”.

     

    We urge all our readers to support this campaign by clicking here.

     

    #BackLash #FreeRaif #JeSusisRaif

     

    Free Raif Badawi – Saudi Arabia should free blogger Raif Badawi; we urge readers to support a message calling for his release – #BackLash #FreeRaif #JeSusisRaif

  • Topping a sale

    Topping a sale

    Highest penthouse in western hemisphere sells for £67.5 million

     

    On Friday, the property news site 6sqft reported that a Saudi billionaire had just paid £67.5 million ($87.7 million or €78.6 million) for a New York penthouse at 432 Park Avenue that is currently the highest of any in the western hemisphere.

     

    According to the site, the 8,255 square foot full-floor penthouse retail magnate Fawaz Al Hokair has bought is 1,936 feet up the tower and “offers unparalleled views… through the tower’s signature 10-foot-by-10-foot windows as well as six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a wood-burning fireplace and heated bathroom floors”.

     

    The asking price for the apartment had been £73.1 million ($95 million or €85.1 million).

     

    Topping a sale – 423 Park Avenue penthouse sells for £67.5 million ($87.7 million or €78.6 million) – New York, NY 10022 – Fawaz Al HokairTopping a sale – 423 Park Avenue penthouse sells for £67.5 million ($87.7 million or €78.6 million) – New York, NY 10022 – Fawaz Al Hokair Topping a sale – 423 Park Avenue penthouse sells for £67.5 million ($87.7 million or €78.6 million) – New York, NY 10022 – Fawaz Al Hokair Topping a sale – 423 Park Avenue penthouse sells for £67.5 million ($87.7 million or €78.6 million) – New York, NY 10022 – Fawaz Al Hokairoutside

     

     

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  • A tawdry trio

    A tawdry trio

    As Amanda Clutterbuck and Ian Paton lose their attempt to reclaim £14 million worth of Kensington and Chelsea properties that they signed over to the ‘Vamp in the Veil’ Sara Al Amoudi, we suggest all three are nothing but tawdry (more…)

  • His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud

    His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud

    His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan al-SaudOxford educated petrolhead HRH Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud is married to the Duke of Northumberland’s niece and counts Jeremy Clarkson amongst his friends. (more…)

  • Mohammad Al-Sharif

    Mohammad Al-Sharif

    Mohammad Al-SharifAt the age of 22 in March 2015 this Saudi playboy and wannabe member of the Rich Kids of Instagram was convicted of driving whilst unfit through drugs and fined £400. (more…)

  • Nathan Goralnik (AKA “Nate Goralnik”)

    Nathan Goralnik (AKA “Nate Goralnik”)

    Nathan GoralnikBrown and Yale educated Nathan Goralnik joined Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s New York office in 2012 (more…)

  • Trebling gold

    Trebling gold

    Third gold wrapped vehicle spotted in Knightsbridge

     

    The Ferrari wrapped in gold foil that bubbled up and peeled off was eclipsed in its ridiculousness last week by a gold and black Bugatti Veyron. Now, the collection has expanded with the arrival of a gold Range Rover. (more…)

  • Picture of the Week: As bold as gold

    Picture of the Week: As bold as gold

    A gold and black Bugatti Veyron has eclipsed the gold Ferrari owned by Iraqi kick-boxer named Riyadh Al-Azzawi in terms of being the most gaudy car on the roads in London this summer

     

    This summer Iraqi kick-boxer Riyadh Al-Azzawi has reveled in the attention he’s received as he drove around the streets of Chelsea and Knightsbridge in his gold Ferrari. Despite the £4,000 foil wrap bubbling up and peeling off, the Iraqi kick-boxer cruised around thinking he was the King of the Hill. His reign is over as now the mantle for London’s most gaudy car has been stolen by a gold and black Bugatti Veyron. (more…)

  • Overheard: 29th July

    Overheard: 29th July

    Classic clangers from the last week

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  • A house that hasn’t sold in 14 years

    A house that hasn’t sold in 14 years

    ‘Cotswold style’ mansion dramatically reduced in price after 14 years on the market

     

    Americans love all things British and they especially love to replicate our architecture. In the Northern Californian town of Hillsborough, a fine example is a 35,000 square foot mansion named The Tobin Clark Estate. (more…)