Bird Bath, originally uploaded by malyousif. It’s Friday!! Here’s a bird bath we’ve placed on a plinth in the garden for our feathered friends to cool off in this extremely hot weather we’re experiencing in Bahrain. Yesterday the apparent temperature was FIFTY FOUR degrees C!

OF COURSE WE ARE CIVILISED IN BAHRAIN. We have laws against this sort of thing! but they’re never applied, or even worse, they’re selectively applied. Personally though, I have absolutely no qualms of taking the offender’s picture, number plate or any identifying information and immediately calling the police in the hope that it will not …

Mike Davis rips it a new one. No, actually, I’m not exultant because of his correct portrayal of the emirate. I am worried because his analysis resonates true to the rest of the Gulf.

THE Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) backed the six societies yesterday, saying the new law would hinder the progress of the country’s reform program

SIX political societies will hold vigils at their premises today and tomorrow, in protest over a law governing their activities, just passed by the National Assembly.