TELEGRAPHIC MEMORY
“ STATE censorship and press control is rife,” warned the
Telegraph
of the United Arab Emirates when a fund backed by the country’s vice-president looked likely to take full control of the newspaper.
Former editor and ongoing columnist Charles Moore warned that this would be “unforgivable” on the grounds that even the UAE’s “best friends would not pretend that it is a democracy, or that it has institutionalised the rights and liberties of the Western world”.