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A fun day out for the family…

The tide has now turned; people have really started kicking the place now that it’s down.

This paragraph sums up the article. Nobody comes out of this with an ounce of respect intact…

“The track sits in a wasteland surrounded by the exhausted squirm of motorways. I walk around it and look not at the galloping horses and their bright jockeys but back up at the stands. Here in one long panorama is the Dantean vision of modern Dubai—the Arabs huddled in a glass dome, looking like creatures from a Star Trek episode in their sepulchral winding-sheet dishdashas. Next to them are the stands for Westerners, mostly British, loud and drunk, dressed in their tarty party gear. The girls, raucous and provocative, have fat thighs that wobble in tiny frocks. Cantilevered bosoms lurch. The boys, spiky and gelled, glassy-eyed and leering. In the last enclosure, the Asians, packed in with families and picnics, excited to be out of the Portakabin dormitories and the boredom and the homesickness of Internet cafés. In front of them all are the ranks of wired-up security guards, making sure the layers of this mutually dismissive society don’t pollute each other. After the horses have run, Elton John will perform.”

Dubai on Empty | Culture | Vanity Fair

Bond’s end…

“It was true, Young had offered to make one final Bond film, but it would have to be the last film in the series.  Young felt that only with the knowledge that James Bond would not return could there be any further character growth.  He pictured an aging Connery finishing his final mission.  A Bond knowing that his life as a secret agent was over, sadly turning the keys of the Aston Martin over to a heartbroken Q, then walking silently out the door, leaving the ghosts of his adventures to haunt the faceless gray building off Regent´s Park.”

Terence Young: James Bond’s Creator?.