Pro Revolution Soccer: What Does Qatar Want?
Why do Gulf petrostates pour billions into football? Kate Mason and Ali Reda join our World Cup podcast.
Tag: gulf
Long Read: ‘Levelling Up’ is Encouraging Gulf States to Buy Northern Football Clubs
by Ali Reda & Philip Proudfoot
The Tories have welcomed oil sheikdoms buying up football clubs in England’s cash-strapped post-industrial north as part of their ‘levelling up’ agenda. Philip Proudfoot and Ali Reda explain.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the Arab Uprisings Were Drowned in Oil
by David Wearing
Despite popular appetite for democracy, the Arab uprisings were violently thwarted. In the fourth part of his series on what these events can teach us about Western imperialism in the twenty-first century, David Wearing explores the role oil played in determining their defeat.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the UK and Gulf Monarchies Helped Crush Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement
by David Wearing
Ten years ago today, regime security forces in Bahrain attacked unarmed protesters camped at Pearl Roundabout, Manama. In the third piece of his series on the Arab uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the UK helped crush Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.
Tackling the Climate Crisis Means Transforming British Foreign Relations
by David Wearing
Britain’s modern relations with the fossil fuel producers of the Middle East are key in sustaining our neoliberal economic model and militaristic foreign policy. Combating the climate crisis will force us to untangle these relationships - and the effects will be transformative, argues David Wearing.
The Bastani Factor: Anglo-Arabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain | Aaron Meets David Wearing
Aaron is joined by David Wearing author of ‘Anglo-Arabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain’ to discuss the Gulf oil monarchies and the UK’s key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.