Anas Altikriti case raises crucial questions about Britain's alliance with the UAE

Anas Altikriti case raises crucial questions about Britain's alliance with the UAE Submitted by Peter Oborne on Fri, 08/21/2026 - 15:17 Amid chilling revelations of an Emirati surveillance operation targeting the London-based analyst, it's past time for the UK to reassess bilateral relations Anas Altikriti said London police warned him a decade ago that his life was in danger (Screengrab) Off In the long-lost days when I was chief political commentator for the Daily Telegraph, I used to engage with Anas Altikriti , chief executive of the Cordoba Foundation, on Muslim issues. Cordoba disputes the proposition, much favoured by other American and British think tanks, of an inevitable clash of civilisations between Islam and the West. Altikriti himself came into the spotlight after revealing that he had suddenly - and without warning - been stripped of his bank account by HSBC in 2014.