Did the barrister win or lose? :smile: (View Post)

There's also a risk of thinking it an end, not a milestone. To add: Josip Tito 1980 Nicolae Ceaușescu 1989 Slobodan Milosevic 2000 (approx) How are those doing? (View Post)

For anyone following up last night's conversation wrt Syria, Rory Stewart had a good brief explainer of Syrian groups and recent history since the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. One of the i… (View Post)

You're stuck in your mindset and your worldview, I think. Religion (even Western religion) does not comprise "going to church". AFAIK, Islam as it has existed since the 7C in the ME in… (View Post)

I think you are perhaps trying to apply Western European assumptions in a Middle Eastern culture, and perhaps imagining that Islam in the ME exists separately to polity / society; not so - it encompa… (View Post)