Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Friday 23 April 2010
For The Country, The Sublime and The Flag
Five years on, and the forces of secularisation as the means to the Islamisation of Lebanon are at it again. Is the confessional system ideal? Far from it, although it is worth pointing out that while seats are reserved, election to them is by universal suffrage, and that everyone has a seat that they are free to contest, unlike the ban on Jewish or Roma Senators or Presidents in Bosnia. But without confessionalism, we all know what would become of Lebanon. Yet again, neoconservatism, secular liberalism at an age where it has its finger on the trigger, lines up with militant Islam. Just as in Bosnia, in fact.
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