Riyadh-financed extremist networks exist presently around the world providing terrorist groups and individuals with a protective environment and support and even the recent terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia itself do not seem likely to bring about meaningful change.

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We should have been able to, it would seem to me, to bring both sides of the issue together to talk about here is what we're going to try to do, here's the realism of it, and here's what I think, unofficially, is where I am.

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Firms on the lookout for ways to improve their image and NGOs hoping to bring about meaningful change seem like natural partners.

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Talk is cheap and while many banks talk about investing in technology to bring about change, very few seem to be walking the talk.

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Optimists cling to the hope that a hung parliament and a realignment on the centre-right would bring that leap about, but for the moment the Lib Dems seem unsure whether they are to the left or the right of Labour.

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