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This is what you Revolution has Wrought
Posted by Phil When Mohammad Mursi was elected President of Egypt, the world seemed to rejoice at the democratic transition taking place before our eyes. The rise of a democratic Egypt, the leader of...
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Modest to the Last
Posted by Phil Speaking to Bloomberg in a trailing article for their May issue that will cover the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair has come up with one of his characteristically modest statements...
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Let ULU go bankrupt
Posted by Phil The University of London Union is one of the largest student unions in the world. Taking into account all of the constituent colleges, it has a membership representing around 120,000...
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They will drag us into the abyss
Posted by Phil On January 29th 2013 I went to lunch with my mother at a small café near her work, which is contained within a bookshop. As most of the clientele are eating in a rush and alone, there...
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We owe them better than this
Posted by Phil The shocking murder of a British serviceman on the streets of London this week has raised once again the specter of Islamic extremism and the threat it poses to the UK. Unfortunately,...
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Keystone XL – Trouble in the Pipeline
Posted by Phil The Keystone XL Pipeline Project is the name given to the proposed roughly 1,700 mile extension to the main Canada-US oil pipeline, designed to expedite the transport of oil from the...
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It just isn’t cricket – I mean Catholic
Posted by Phil Over the past few days, one of my former homes has been in the news rather a lot. Georgetown, a Jesuit Catholic university in Washington D.C. has been attacked ferociously by an alumnus,...
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Close enough to hear the screams
Posted by Phil Credit Galia Nurko (@GalNurko) While the media concentrates on the ongoing demonstrations in Brazil and Turkey, it is easy to forget that there is still a conflict raging in what used...
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Dispatches from Jerusalem: Israel is happy
Posted by Phil Over the past few weeks, I have been in one of my favourite cities in the world, Jerusalem. This ancient and spiritual place is unique. The passion, the hustle and bustle, and the way...
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Nothing to do with democracy
Posted by Phil Since the overthrow of the previous regime in 2011, Egypt has appeared to many as the barometer of the Arab Spring. The thinking went that if the largest Arab country was moving in the...
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