Bought a Guardian today

The traditional lefty paper, they been advertising it heavily on the telly lately, the advert suggests that they have resized it, and i guess they have. In an effort to be unique it now appears to be of a size inbetween your tabloids and traditional broadsheet. Utter nonsense if you ask me, it makes it no more conveinent for reading on public transport and therefore a wasted exercise in style over substance.

Anyway it hasn't stopped me reading it, at the snail pace i usually read yer serious style paper, and it's top story did interest me. Tony himself as well as the defence secretary holding secret talks with the Saudis to secure £40bn worth of arms sales. The immorality of the arms trade aside, the questionable morals of selling arms to a regime like the Saudis, the Saudis want to attach a few strings on the deal.

They would like Britain to expel two anti-Saudi dissidents currently receiving asylum in the UK. They want British Airways to resume flights to Riyadh, these are currewntly cancelled sue to terrorism fears. I can only presume this shows the quality that BA provides, either that or no other bugger flies direct from there to the UK. They would also like Tony to have a criminal investigation involving the Saudi Ruling family and BAE dropped. Something to do with a "slush fund" and an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.

No doubt Tony will do all he can to enable the contract to go through, who knows perhaps the Saudis will settle for 2 out of 3, if that investigation can't be stopped i'm sure they can make sure anyone found guilty never makes it into a UK courtroom.