“Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.”(Bhagat Singh) As Jamal Khashoggi’s body, or its dismembered parts, remain to be discovered, and Raif Badawi continues to be incarcerated with the threat of 950 lashes still hanging over him (the first 50 were inflicted in […]
Saudi Arabia
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 […]
Bloggers, Floggers and the Magna Carta
Bloggers, Floggers and the Magna Carta 15th June 2015 is the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta. 17th June 2015 is the 3rd anniversary of the arrest of Raif Badawi. A mighty 800 years separate these two events and yet they are intrinsically and fundamentally linked. Both are to do with the […]