Traditionally, if something happens in Bahrain that even touches on perceived loyalties to the ruling family, or lack thereof, we get full- or at least half-page adverts crying foul and heavily beating chests in demonstration of the advertiser’s eternal love and loyalty to the royal family, or person, or both, at the cost of “those …
Numero uno: It’s been 63 days since the parliament was dissolved and we still don’t know when the next elections are going to be.. or should we take it as the “experiment” has failed and we’re going to try version 2.0 of The Bahraini Democratic Experiment® and that is: get rid of this democracy schlamocracy …
I met briefly with Shaikh Ahmed bin Attiyatallah this morning and asked him directly for his comment about the hot topic of this week; what he said is that it is a case of revenge. “I fired the guy and he didn’t like it, so he’s unleashed this ‘thing’[1] as revenge against me” When I …
1. document everything, just in case you need to save your ass. 2. continuously shout out “it wasn’t me” and practice making puppy eyes. 3. depend on morons, just like yourself, who too can’t organise a piss-up in a brewery. 4. spend a lot of money and keep receipts. see 1. 5. hire some mercenaries …
Finally, we have some movement. Of course there is no guarantee that the anticipated movement will be good, as there are no guarantees for it being the opposite, but as the local idiom goes: “الØÂركة بركة” – loosely translated: “in movement there is a blessing” So the king invited the heads of the political societies …