“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s (sic) original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” Oscar Wilde. In our turbulent times, in the light of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally, the right to protest must be protected more than ever. The […]
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1000 Lashes for Raif Badawi
Blog originally published on Huffington Post Every Friday morning, a small group of us, sometimes three, sometimes five, hold a vigil outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia. We’re the most genteel and well-behaved protestors anyone could want, yet the embassy always posts a guard behind the railings, watching and monitoring us. As they must be […]
Modi, Brady and Omar Khayyam
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. (From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, 1859. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald.) I had decided not to write an Old Year/New […]