The Supreme Court

On the BBC, Ashraf Ghani, former finance minister of Afghanistan and now chancellor of Kabul University.( The Interview). He referred to his piece in The New York Times, presumably this:  'Where Democracy's Greatest Enemy Is a Flower', 12 Dec 2004 - link here.

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SIAW worry about 'whether we’d sufficiently differentiated our position from the conventional secularist views proclaimed by such luminaries as Richard Dawkins or Polly Toynbee'. Interesting. Norm takes a similar view too apparently.

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Comments here on the House of Lords.

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Rafsanjani has confirmed his return. (Update: A few from the Middle East)