Hey Tower Ranger, maybe you could whip down to the Xerox shop on SZR and use your EK discount to make a few copies of that article and try to get a few copies into the camps in Al Quoz. I hear those boys really appreciate a little smug satire. Who doesn't love a smarmy Brit journo. Hilarious!
(Note to the author: when your point has been made in the first line with the subtlety of an anvil dropped on your head, restating the same "joke" in variations for endless paragraphs only serves to demonstrate a love of ones own voice that borders on the masturbatory.)
So far the horrors of Dubai have been countered with:
1. Every place has it's problems. *shrug*
2. Paying a Pole in London to wash your windows = beating/raping/imprisoning your Filipino maid in Abu Dhabi.
3. The Americans/British did it first.
4. You don't live here so your opinion doesn't count.
I'm convinced. Dubai is just misunderstood. The UAE is actually a victim, and a model for the future.