Tag Archives: Iran

Absent without leave

06/08/2010 – 12:02 am

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 Iran [...]

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Home education and Iran

21/02/2010 – 11:07 pm

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 [...]

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Iran the Green Revolution

09/02/2010 – 7:21 pm

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/

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Thoughts for the year

31/12/2008 – 4:33 pm

Both Houses of Parliament are among the busiest legislative chambers in the world.  2008 has been a busy one for the House of Lords, though no more than usual.  Some of it activities have attracted media attention – as over the defeat of the proposal for detention without charge for 42 days – but they are very much [...]

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Second chambers

28/07/2008 – 5:07 pm

Second chambers are remarkable for a number of reasons.  Most countries don’t have one, though they are common in federal states and Western nations.  Though a minority taste, and often controversial, they can serve useful purposes and a number of developing countries and new democracies have established, or are considering establishing, them.  The proposal for [...]

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