Saturday, May 21, 2005

Mr Lings & Mr Picot

  1. The Independent remembers the late Martin Lings.

  2. Robert Fisk, in the same paper, manages to make François Georges Picot (of the Sykes-Picot Agreement infamy) an even less likable character.
Now to return to my espresso-fuelled Sudoku...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

oops. just mailed this back to you!

but is that a snide remark aimed at ML? je ne comprend pas?!

Leo_Africanus said...

'The Independent remembers the late Martin Lings' - am I missing something?

Anonymous said...

"an EVEN LESS likable character"

I guess you meant even less likable than you already regarded him as being, but that's just not how it came across at first reading!

Leo_Africanus said...

Ah! I see what you mean. I wasn't trying to rough up ML. Not when Ziauddin Sardar's around any way.