Tuesday 22 February 2011

Roll Up, Roll Up for the Tyranny Tombola

Ewar's just been in for a discussion of his very interesting final-year dissertation, and we finished by chatting about the Libyan situation.

So: who's next? Who do you think needs overthrowing, and who do you think actually will be? I'm disqualifying Simon Cowell, Bruce Forsyth, Murdoch and Berlusconi: this is just executive tyrants.

Choose from any of these and I'll provide a small and relevant prize to the winner.

Iran
Saudi Arabia (please, please, please)
Syria
North Korea
The Pope
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Algeria
China
Jordan
Bahrain
Qatar
Abu Dhabi
Chechnya
Kazakhstan
Belarus
Ukraine
Brunei
Singapore
Malaysia
Burma (yes please)
Ivory Coast
Ethiopia
Rwanda (both very dubiously democratic)
Israel (OK, vaguely democratic but all the parties seem to agree that the Palestinians need to be crushed)
Palestine (an object lesson in how your leaders will let you down)
Luxembourg
Monaco (raising the delicious possibility of F1 drivers and Philip Green swinging from the gold-plated lamp-posts
Morocco
Oman
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Yemen
Somalia
Eritrea
Zimbabwe

Looking at that list, it's hard to feel particularly proud of democracy's advance…

5 comments:

Ewarwoowar said...

It's only right I have first dibs, I suppose.

MOROCCO for me.

ed said...

Are you going to the Paul Mason guest lecture tomorrow Vole? I've only just found out that he's gracing the Dark Place, so feel free to blog about it please.

Let's be ambitious: CHINA.

Lou said...

My vote's for Bahrain and then with any luck spilling over into Saudi Arabia. Hamid's cash sweetener was too little, too late.

The Plashing Vole said...

I will be at Paul Mason - should be good.

Anonymous said...

I'm going for Jordan or Saudi Arabia.