And as well as Zoe Cormack. . .

 

I did not intend to return from Alexandria with a renewed interest in Middle Eastern and African politics. That all seems part of a long ago newspaper-editor past. But after arriving there in the aftermath of the Two Saints church bombing, listening to the anxieties of Egyptians at the division of Sudan, the threat to their Nile water and then the jasmine guns of Tunis, the sounds of David Cameron expatiating today about public service reform seem both forgettable and replaceable.  My Sudan Watch is going to continue through Zoe Cormack's new anthropological blog which neatly mixes the necessaries of politics with the unnecessaries that we need for understanding wherever we are or have been. I am  now looking for something on-line that will keep me equally well connected with the city in which I have spent these strange last two weeks of new year days and nights.