I am in Gaziantep, effectively, at the moment, on my own ( Read more... )

I stayed up all night (well, I managed to stay awake until 5am, then woke briefly just after six, just before nine, and properly again sometime after 11) to watch the election results come in, despite having had only 4 hours' sleep the night before, prior to a deportation appeal in Newport ( Read more... )

This is what I had to say about her death on Facebook ( Read more... )

Thinking about my left-leaning American friends who seem split between disappointment that Obama has not done enough, and the natural position that he has done a lot more good things than any Republican has done ( Read more... )

( and of legal aid in family cases )

about something about which they know exactly shit. Namely, the NHS.

Repugs, remove your heads from your sphincters and get some genuine information before you slag off another country's treasured institution. Or, you know, speak at all.

Edit: I'm enjoying the comments, especially this one from someone called "InebriatEd":

Why is the British ( Read more... )

This is Tehran by night:

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Found chez eyelid, who found it here
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The Times reports "Khamenei tells Mousavi to toe the line over election or be cast out" -- although do not specify what is meant by "cast out."

Meanwhile, Friday prayers have just taken place and The Guardian's liveblog reports Aytollah Khamenei as saying the following:

( Friday prayer address )

A handy slide show of lesser-known political figures.

Military coup?

End of Khamenei?

Hope for the Iranian-Israeli relationship?