Month: December 2005

Rule of law?

picture credit: Al-Watan Newspaper What rule of law? It seems now that every issue we have in Bahrain is politicised and invariably turn to violence. Why? Do we not have any culture of discussion and dialogue to resolve issues? It certainly didn’t look like it last night; a mob rioted at the airport, terrorising other …

2005 Google Zeitgeist

In the year-end fun department: It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of …