Nile Denial

Rowan Williams is on fine form again. And specifically on Egypt, we have only ourselves to blame. The Anglophile, British-created, very Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood could have cut a deal with the Copts with whom it had stood shoulder to shoulder on the streets against Mubarak.

But instead, we cast aside our own knowledge of the Middle East and slavishly followed the Americans in their own slavish following of a State founded and organised on the premise that the Arab world contained, certainly nothing worth knowing about, and probably nothing at all.