I’ve always had an unjustifiable dislike of Dubai. I’ve hated it from afar and, like an ignorant westerner, poured scorn on it whenever I could for no other reason than hating what it stood for: a utopia of peacockery for the world’s rich. My building’s bigger than yours; my skyscraper’s air-conditioning uses enough electricity to power a small African city.

The rest is here: 
D’ya buy, Dubai?

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