In an open letter published online over the weekend, Salman Al-Oadah described a rising tide of anger in the deeply conservative kingdom, writing that "negative feelings have been accumulating for a long time" in Saudi Arabia.
Messrs Kinnock and Bush got exclusively negative publicity for their pratfalls, whereas the first minister won kudos for revealing something he could have kept secret, writing about it in an amusing manner and understanding that, if you are going to tweet, you should capture people's attention with an arresting anecdote not bore them with predictable propaganda.