Hello, and welcome back to this week's episode of TF.

It is a configuration we don't do very often. It's, but I'm interested to see what it's

capable of. It's myself, Alice, and Hussein today. And we are talking to Aaron Merritt, who is a

journalist who specializes in defense and the arms trade, who's worked for Shadow Diffid,

and who also served as the Economist Iran correspondent for several years. And you can follow him

on Twitter at A underscore Merit. Yeah. Another thigh-slapping episode of our comedy podcast. Oh, yeah.

This is, oh, boy.

After we talked about the extent to which the UK supplies riot gear to American Cults,

we thought it would be a good idea to talk about some of the other sort of implements that we sell

to facilitate your creativity or whatever worldwide.

And with that in mind, I've selected a reading.

It's sort of a long one, but it's a reading for us to open with,

about the sort of things that British companies sell

and that the British government facilitates the sale of,

and their use in the ongoing

Saudi offensive in Yemen. And I will say this is, this is like if you like a content warning

or a trigger warning or whatever else you want to call it. If you don't want to hear something

quite gruesome, I would skip ahead maybe a couple of minutes in the podcast because this will

thoroughly ruin your day.

But I think it is sort of incumbent on us to see what's being done with, well, our money

and in our name.

So this is from the New York Times.

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