The difference between a picture and an image may be in the eye of the beholder. A picture may freeze an instant of reality but an image lives in a larger time and space and can depart from the original picture. This may have happened in the situation of the Anti-Slavery International (ASI) story about a camel jockey event held near Abu Dhabi. The image the story portrayed was quite different from the pictures that ran with it.

Over the past two weeks, the juxtaposition of two criminal investigations has called into question the balance and fairness of the UAE’s system of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, the ‘heavyweight’ media have drawn attention to the acquittal of a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, apparently in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence, while a young British Muslim woman visiting Dubai went to report a rape only to find herself and her partner on the wrong end of the UAE’s laws concerning drinking alcohol and having sexual relations outside marriage.

Patience in Washington with Iran is fast running out. The Obama administration seems to continue a twin-track approach to imposing greater sanctions on Iran: first through extensive diplomatic efforts to secure a much more punishing round of restrictions on trade through the UN Security Council and, secondly, through its own unilateral efforts.

there has been no suggestion that he was radicalised in Dubai and indeed it may be that he was using this as cover to disguise his growing involvement with AQAP.