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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: the Yemen war has killed over 100,000 people with observers estimating that two-thirds of those killed came to be dead because of Saudi’s aggressive airstrikes. So, let’s play golf. Photograph: Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP  via Getty Images

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: the Yemen war has killed over 100,000 people with observers estimating that two-thirds of those killed came to be dead because of Saudi’s aggressive airstrikes. So, let’s play golf. Photograph: Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

You might have seen Sky getting post ironic this week. A reporter tracked down a Glazer family member. Let’s not pretend we know the difference between the family members, whether it’s Joel or Avram or Bryan or Darcie.

The intrepid woman followed the Glazer family member, who didn’t look around, didn’t speak, didn’t acknowledge her, just walked zombie-like as she bombarded him with questions.

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