I'm rather relieved to be out of the country during King Abdullah's state visit. I don't think I could endure watching the spectacle of the British political establishment and the royal family fawning over the head of a state which promotes Wahabism and the intellectual foundations of terror.

The notion that Saudi Arabia is somehow our ally is sickeningly misguided. The House of Saudi might, in some strange theoretical world, be less bad than an alternative Saudi regime. But in the here and now, the Saudi government is a cancer on liberty and freedom.

As my new colleague Melanie Phillips points out (welcome, Melanie, it's terrrific to be in the same cyber magazine):
With an exquisite sense of political timing, Policy Exchange publishes today a remarkable pamphlet by Denis MacEoin revealing how British mosques are being used to peddle literature inciting Muslims to jihadi hatred and sedition