areeb ullah is a journalist at middle east eye.lso sanan vakil who is deputy director of the middle east and north africa programme at chatham house, and jim waterson, who is media editor at the guardian. also today, the classic american music magazine rolling stone has launched in the uk. that might come as a surprise, considering how many media publications are shrinking. darren styles is the magazine's managing director. he also publishes attitude magazine. you could probably call this more of a relaunch than a launch but it didn't go so well the first time rolling stone launched in the uk. yeah, i think it was 1968, mickjagger launched the magazine in partnership with jann wenner, the founder of rolling stone. and jann wenner said to me, everyone had a lovely time, burnt through quite a lot of money through a 12 month period, had a swanky office in chelsea but jann decided it was doing more harm than good when i think what turned out to be the last issue spelt bob dylan's name wrong on the front cover. so, at that point, jann d

areeb ullah is a journalist at middle east eye.

areeb ullah is a journalist at middle east eye. could probably call this more of a relaunch than a launch but it didn�*t go so well the first time rolling stone launched in the uk. yeah, i think it was 1968, mickjagger launched the magazine in partnership with jann wenner, the founder of rollingstone. and jann wenner said to me, everyone had a lovely time, burnt through quite a lot of money through a 12 month period, had a swanky office in chelsea butjann decided it was doing more harm than good when i think what turned out to be the last issue spelt bob dylan�*s name wrong on the front cover. so, at that point, jann decided it was time to cut and run. so, 52 years later, here we are back again. but with spell—check, so... awesome. brilliant. i look forward to hearing much more about that and what you are doing with this iconic title later in the programme. but let�*s start with saudi arabia. because the spotlight has been on the football. but listeners may be surprised to realise how embedded that country is in the british media.