“Pipes. You need them. I got them right here.” The words, there, of Nasser Al Khater, chief executive officer of Qatar 2022, speaking in Doha on Thursday morning.
Actually that’s not correct. In fact this is a line spoken by an unnamed door‑to‑door crack cocaine salesman in the TV series The Wire, during a sequence where the Baltimore police department experiments by decriminalising drugs in an abandoned neighbourhood. Addictions reach desperation level. The city’s dealers create their own vision of entrepreneurial hell.
