I support the campaign of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Baha’i faith for the release of the seven Baha’i leaders in Iran. They are now entering their eighth year of imprisonment, after a trial which was lacking in due process. May I urge those who see this blog to contact their MP. …
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The Middle East
by Lord Soley • • 8 Comments
There are some deeply worrying reports coming from the Palestine/Israel talks in the US. Simon Tisdall writing in the Guardian today (Tuesday 5th October) suggests the talks are likely to end in failure. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/04/israel-palestine-peace-collapse It is getting hard to see how we can maintain even a semblance of peace in the region especially as other…
Absent without leave
by Lord Soley • • 14 Comments
July was a particularly heavy month for me so I have been absent from the blog. I will now try and make up for lost time during August – it might enable some of my more industriuos colleagues to take a well earned rest! Throughout this time I have been watching the increasingly authoritarian regime in…
Home education and Iran
by Lord Soley • • 58 Comments
I have spent some time reading the comments on the post concerning home education. I still have some more background reading to do but it has been useful. I think that some of the comments are unnecessarily aggressive and do not add to the argument. Hotly disputed issues like this need cool heads. I will…
Iran the Green Revolution
by Lord Soley • • 11 Comments
There seems to be growing external and internal support for the green revolution in Iran. This is the latest site I have found promoting the internal resistance. http://www.li.com/
