I wrote to The Times this morning about report on the English grandfather liable to punishment for alcohol possession in Saudi Arabia as follows:

Of course the Foreign Office must bend every effort to saving that old toper in Saudi from his 350 lashes. But it seems to me very wrong to accept gainful employment in another country and then behave in a manner contemptuous of its laws, of which one must be fully aware. Those who can't do without their inebriative fix just shouldn't accept the job. Having alcohol in Saudi Arabia, apart from anything else, displays filthy manners towards one's host. It may not deserve flogging; but it certainly deserves contempt.

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