Fair evaluation. There is another option. Maybe the Junta isn't fully unified and maybe there are factions within it. Another option is that Madr is aimed for an upper middle western audience - its...

I saw some photographs of the convoys going/arriving there yesterday. It reminded me of the great excitement my Coptic friends woupd be in at this time of year as I often visited just before, or just...

Boris seems to have more in common with Trump than just hair :lol:

He must be gutted that the Conservative Conference is being sidetracked by his frolicking with Ms Arcuri. Financially lucrative...

The whole thing is a mess and disgrace.

Televised parliament does not help eithe. It was meant to bring the public closer to the debates and decisions. All it has done is spawn a load of loud...

Did Jeremy mention that the passports of everyone earning over £100,000 would be temporarily withdrawn and their assets frozen whilst the new “goodies for all” schemes were bedding in ?
No he didn't...

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So finally the Exit from the EU will go through and after 3 long years the democratic process will finally be served.
Boris will suspend Parliament and HM the Queen has agreed to this, so the...

When the UK leaves ( if it ever does) the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
No one has ever presented a reasonable or valid argument for remaining in the EU, except a load of fear mongering...

Here in Turkey Eid - called Seker Bayram (Sugar Festival) - started at 5.00am on Tuesday 4th. I was confused when I read that it started on the 5th in Egypt :ni: :ni: :ni:

Well, tonight showed them Eton toffs a thing or 2.

You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cant fool all of the people all of the time....

Couldn't wait to see the back of her, everything she promised she reneged on and to keep trying to get the same deal through Parliament time after time after it was utterly rejected reminded me of...

According to the official statistics (yes.....dubious) 88% voted yes on a turnout of 44%

Even allowing for creative accounting on the part of the electoral commission, it seems yes voters ( 23...

Are you reading this tourists? What a load of B------s

Given that there is no opposition, Egypt might as well be stuck with Sisi for the next 20 years as some other general.

Far more worrying is the control the constitutional amendments give Sisi over...

Part 3 Husseini is a Great Religious Leader.

This lunatic had no fear that the absence of truth in his views and his many failures would catch up with him and at Karachi in 1951 he presided over a...

Carrie I agree but disagree.

Deplorable and sad and we know enough about poverty to know that children brought up in poor families may face a similar future. Getting the household out of low income...

What a giggle - tried so many times even on insubstantial terms. They can't even get the Arab Union to function with the semblance of life.

My guess they will fight over power/superiority/functions...