A week is a long time
It hasn’t been the best week for good news has it? Mubarak is still, somehow, clinging to power in Egypt despite what seemed a potential turning point yesterday evening when everyone seemed to be saying he was going to go. The army seem to be backing away from his immediate removal and falling behind his … Read more
History has a tendency…
The protests in Egypt this week have, without doubt, been hugely inspring. We must, as Western observers of this potentially huge shift in power, take heart from the fact that, even after years of what looks like stable autocracy, a population can rise up against the dominant doctrine of the ruling classes and challenge it … Read more
