Islamists gained a decisive victory in Egypt’s elections as early results show. They are on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. It is the most significant step yet in Ikhwan’s rise since the start of the Arab Spring.

The political party – Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) – formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s main Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 per cent of the vote. A b...

Inspired by the French Revolution, William Wordsworth, the Romantic known for celebration of nature and hopeless odes to the Lake District wrote:

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven! Oh, times,

In which the meager, stale, forbidding ways

Of custom, law, and statute took at once

The attraction of a country in romance!

A country in romance indeed. Watching the Egyptian...

There is still a strong possibility that Egypt’s Ruling Generals, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) as they call themselves, and their Colonial paymasters will find a way to scuttle the Egyptian Revolution by rounding up the “Usual Suspects.”

Should they decide to do that, they will select from a litany of lies available to them to explain and justify their traitorous misdeeds.