Claire Stephens

People would say things to me where I was like, ooh, I would never say that to my boss, but maybe you feel like you can say that to me because I've said that about me.

And you won't know what it was that you shared that made you reject it.

I didn't, but for a long time I've seen beautiful people in Dubai and wondered what's the go with that?

role of those influences meant to be tourism?

I mean, the idea of it's not meant to be happening here, that's been accused of kind of being riddled with a lot of entitlement and almost arrogance that it's allowed to happen in the country next door, but it shouldn't be happening to me.

I do think what's interesting about the influencer conversation is that

When the world gets really scary and really complex and there is a conflict of the proportions of which we know we have no control over, I don't have any control over who bombs who and that is sickening.

I think sometimes looking at influences is the easiest way to prosecute injustice.

And so we look at somebody like Louise Starkey and we're like, well, I can't have a conversation with Trump about how maybe he should be a bit more careful about starting military action, but I can comment on Louise Starkey's post and be like, this is insensitive and you're a monster.

But that's interesting because I've spent maybe three days in Dubai.

I stayed there and I was oblivious and didn't know it was Ramadan at the time because it was a stopover coming back from Europe.

And I knew it was Ramadan.

Like that was in the hotel, that was everywhere.

And the thing about being there is

is that, yes, it feels like you're in – Jess and I both said it feels like a fake world.

Yes, man-made.

Like you go to this shopping centre and it's the biggest shopping centre in the world and you see the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world, and you're blown away by all of this.

You're very aware of where you are, I found.

And I remember when we were landing, I was reading Fifty Shades of Grey on the plane.

Well, and the flight attendant tapped me on the shoulder and said, you can't read that here.