Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Independence day

I see that the United Arab Emirates will be celebrating 38 years of independence from the UK today. I wonder how such a small country can have survived on its own for so long - a population of less than three million in 2000 and now only approaching six million - how have they got by without the UK?

Truly amazing...

1 comment:

  1. By being a uniquely authoritarian capitalist oil state?

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