This week the last of 200 Royal Air Force personnel were deployed to Qatar’s Dukhan airbase, part of Project Thariyat, a joint World Cup-veiled security mission. Welcome to Qatar 2022, where the world comes together, and does so seriously tooled up But there is still a blank at the heart of this vast, onerous enterprise an absence of any real notion of why. The consequences and related causes have been examined in granular detail, from Fifa corruption, to human rights abuse to the vainglorious ambition of the hyper-rich. Why is the World Cup happening in Qatar anyway? ![]() The opening game is just over a month away and still every question, from what words to use, to Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s confusing early-season squad-bolt as an ambling central pivot, leads you back to the same basic ground. How serious can something with “washing” in its name really be? By now sportswashing has been adopted among apologists as a kind of internet eyeroll, with a vague sense it belongs in the same company as “wokery”, or having feelings or taking offence at an emoji.
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