The New Statesman

Hello, I'm Anusha Kellyan and you're listening to Daily Politics from The New

Statesman. It's Saturday and I'm here again with Will Dunn for our weekly political

rundown. Hi Will. Hello. So our first category is the real victims of war of the week, according to the headlines.

Yeah.

We've got to be a little bit careful here, Will, because obviously we're talking about people

who are living in a war zone, which is never fun.

We are, all people living near a war zone who are affected by the war in Iran, and obviously,

yeah, we're sympathetic with those people and

concerned for their safety we wouldn't mock anyone who is in a situation where

they might end up getting hit by a drone obviously but there are some people

who have taken to the British press in a very public way to talk

about their experiences in a way that has a little bit of a whiff of privilege and perhaps

not that much of an air of understanding the geopolitics that's around them.

Yeah. So we're mainly talking about British expats in Dubai, aren't we?

It has become a hobby of some of the rich of Britain to go and make themselves tax

residents in Dubai where there's no income tax and therefore not to pay very much tax at all.

And some of them seem to have only just discovered that they are actually living in the

Middle East rather than a giant shopping mall.

And one of my favourite headlines was from the mail.

I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai.

While back home in Chichester, my daughters are furious.

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