Oct
30
Why King Abdullah’s visit is a farce
The Queen gets to meet King Abdullah today, after
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While I agree with your sentiment, it’s a shame that a phrase in this piece appears to have been lifted straight from Robert Fisk’s leading article in today’s Independent.
“The sad, awful truth is that we fete these people, we fawn on them, we supply them with fighter jets, whisky and whores.”
A perfect copy-and-paste job, right down to the punctuation. Are you actually Robert Fisk? If not, you should credit him in respect of the apparent plagiarism.
DB
Very true, I totally agree, I did not actually cut’n'paste as suggested but (on checking Robert Fisk’s article) I find I actually did use word for word (although anyone could, through proper grammar, like what I use, put the right in the correct punctuation)
I apologise entirely to Robert for seeming to plagarise, after reading his article it stayed with me what he said, as I wrote.
P.S. I had intended to use Rolls Royce as a term within the text, but wasn’t sure whether it was now a UK company benefiting UK residence in its dealings