Political societies warned: “Your bulletin is too big!”

That’s the latest in the salvo against political societies. The most mundane and incoherent excuse to try to “put them in their place” and put another hurdle in their already faltering steps. Anything, it seems, to curtail their effectiveness and to get them to waste their energies into anything but the forthcoming elections. Now, they’ve been pulled up for their publications!

Walking the shore

One of the most pleasurable things my wife and I do while on holiday is walk! I know, sounds so mundane doesn’t it? But we love it. We walk, we talk we watch people, observe the surroundings, interact with the locals, or just join hands and silently amble. Walking, we’ve discovered, is one of the …

Shame on you Bahrain TV.

If there is ever a reason for shutting down the joke that is called “our national television”, then it’s their broadcasting a “crawl txt message” in their ticker describing the majority of the country’s population with a completely offensive and derogatory word. At around 1.30am this morning, their ticker tape included the word “rawafidh” according …