Added on 16/09/2012
Steve Royston
Afghanistan , Health insurance , Healthcare , India , Iraq , Jeddah , Margaret Thatcher , National Guard , National Health Service , North Carolina , Oil , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , specialist , The Arab News , UK , United Kingdom , United States
STEVE ROYSTON: In one respect he is fortunate: Saudi has abundant resources to throw at these problems, unlike the US and the UK, where health services are competing for funds.
Added on 09/09/2012
Steve Royston
Afghanistan , Albania , America , Barack Obama , California , Cambodia , China , Clinton , Congress , Energy , George W. Bush , Hitler , Impotence , Internal Revenue Service , Iraq , Israel , Japan , Jerusalem , Lincoln , Lyndon Johnson , Middle East , midwife , Mitt Romney , National Front , North Carolina , Obama , Pakistan , Paranoia , Paris , Poland , President , prime minster , Richard Nixon , Ronald Reagan , Russia , Sheldon Adelson , Sunday Times , The New York Times , Twitter , United Kingdom , United States , US Elections , US Treasury , Vietnam , White House
STEVE ROYSTON: Preparation involves coming up with diversionary tactics whenever the question is likely to produce a response unpalatable to the listening millions.
Added on 11/08/2012
Steve Royston
National Health Service , Olympics , United Kingdom
STEVE ROYSTON: So will a New Britain emerge in the wake of the medals, stadia and closing ceremony? I don’t think so. We are what we are. An English man writes.
Added on 03/08/2012
Steve Royston
Economy , Education , Society
STEVE ROYSTON: We’re all taught to aspire to the highest levels in whatever discipline we work but only a tiny percentage reach the stratosphere
Added on 22/05/2012
Steve Royston
Albania , Bahrain , Bulgaria , Constantine , Europe , European Union , Germany , Greece , Italy , Japan , Jordan , Malaysia , Romania , Serbia , Spain , Thames , United Kingdom
STEVE ROYSTON: There was a bit of commotion about the King of Bahrain’s attendance at a recent lunch in the UK. I was struck by another issue
Added on 18/04/2012
Steve Royston
Abu Dhabi , Bahrain , Cairo , Middle East , Shisha , United Kingdom
STEVE ROYSTON: While Saudi plans to ban it within city limits; Bahrain is considering loosening restrictions. I’m with the Bahrainis.
Added on 17/04/2012
Steve Royston
Bahrain , Formula 1 , the Bahrain Grand Prix
STEVE ROYSTON: There seems to be an unnatural degree of emotion surrounding this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix. A sense of perspective?
Added on 23/02/2012
Steve Royston
Amazon , Bahrain , Dubai , Kindle , Literature , Middle East , Robin Barrett
STEVE ROYSTON: Many of us who have decided to settle in Bahrain remain determined to see the positive in spite of the recent troubles
Added on 30/01/2012
Steve Royston
Bahrain , Bill Gates , Democracy , Housing Minister , Labour government , Labour Party , Mark Zuckerberg , National Health Service , Steve Jobs , United Kingdom
STEVE ROYSTON: Bahrain is debating whether a bachelor’s degree is a necessity for a member of parliament. It will skew the demographics.
Added on 28/01/2012
Steve Royston
Apple , Bahrain , Bill Gates , China , David Beckham , Davos , Economics , Egypt , Europe , Fidel Castro , film maker , Glenn Beck , Internal Revenue Service , London , London School of Economics , Malta , Manufacturing , Middle East , Mobile Phones , Qatar , Rome , Saudi Arabia , Switzerland , Tea Party , travel document , United Kingdom , United States , US government , Warren Buffett , Western Europe
STEVE ROYSTON: An Angell visited the other day. Not one with wings, but a Welshman with a biting tongue and the rhetorical skills of David Lloyd George.
Added on 24/01/2012
Steve Royston
Arab League , Bahrain , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Hosni Mubarak , Middle East , President , Syria , Syrian government , Tahrir Square , Tunisia , United States
STEVE ROYSTON: We’re coming up to the first anniversary of the protests that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. What is the most significant change that has taken place over the past year?
Added on 09/01/2012
Steve Royston
Afghanistan , Ali Khamenei , Alternative Energy , Anders Breivik , Brezhnev , Cambridge , China , Christmas , communications technology , Education , Europe , Facebook , Food and Drink , Google+ , Harvard , India , Internet users , Iowa , IPad , Iran , Iraq , Kim Jong-il , Kindle , North Korea , Norway , Oil and gas , Online media , Oxford , policeman , Politics , Qatar , Ron Paul , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Skype , Social Media , Social services , Society , Taliban , Technology , Twitter , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , US Federal Reserve , Vladimir Putin , Warren Buffett , YouTube
STEVE ROYSTON looks at the arts, society, education, politics, business, technology and the environment as we move into 2012, the Year of Fear’.
Added on 04/01/2012
Steve Royston
Happy New Year , Middle East , New year , New Year's Day , Oxford , Saudi Arabia
STEVE ROYSTON: I thought of the Q-less dictionary as words rattled round my head to describe my golf game, and prospects for the world in 2012…
Added on 21/12/2011
Steve Royston
Abdulaziz , Abdullah , America , Anglo-Iranian Oil Company , Beirut , Churchill , co-author , Cyprus , David Ben Gurion , Egypt , Faisal , Gamal Abdul Nasser , Hafez Assad , India , Iran , Iraq , Islamic Republic of Iran , Israel , Jordan , Kim Philby , Lawrence , Lebanon , Literature , London , Middle East , Moscow , New York Times , Paul Wolfowitz , Politics , Prime Minister , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Tehran , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States
STEVE ROYSTON: Book Review: Here you’ll find the Britons and Americans – proconsuls, agents provocateurs, spies, politicians – that shaped the Middle East.
Added on 20/12/2011
Steve Royston
Bahrain , BBC , Christopher Hitchens , Darfur , Iraq , Media , Nick Kristof , police car , Reporting , Salmaniya Hospital , The New York Times , United States
STEVE ROYSTON: I can think of a couple of neighbouring countries where someone in his position would not be allowed into the country in the first place,
Added on 07/12/2011
Steve Royston
Abbas , Anglican Church , Canada , Church of the Nativity , Egypt , Germany , Haifa , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Lebanon , Levant , Middle East , Nablus , Netanyahu , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Syria , United Nations , West Bank , World Council of Churches
STEVE ROYSTON: The diversity of faiths, races and cultures in the Levant is one of its great strengths but this diversity is under threat.
Added on 03/12/2011
Steve Royston
Arabian Peninsula , Bahrain , Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry , East Africa , GCC , Gulf Daily News , Iran , Israel , Middle East , Mossad , North Africa , Northern Ireland , Rome , Saddam Hussain , Tony Blair
STEVE ROYSTON: Should the Iranian threat – whether in terms of moral support or actual intervention – be one of Bahrain’s principal concerns?
Added on 25/11/2011
Steve Royston
Al-Wefaq , Bahrain , Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry , Bassiouni , councillor , Islamic New Year , Print media , the Gulf Daily News , YouTube
STEVE ROYSTON: It seems to me the period of reflection should be accompanied by one of restraint by opinion formers – in the mosques and in print.
Added on 24/11/2011
Steve Royston
Bahrain , Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry , Bassiouni , Congo , Darfur , Hitler , Iraq , Londonderry , Media coverage , North Korea , Northern Ireland , Robert Maxwell , Rwanda , Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Stalin , the Daily Mirror , United Kingdom
STEVE ROYSTON: The report is magisterial, dispassionate and distressing. Accounts of torture, violence and intimidation are not surprising.
Added on 22/11/2011
Steve Royston
Bahrain , Economic Development Board , Egypt , Europe , Formula 1 , Gulf Daily News , Iran , Iraq , Libya , Local media , London , Middle East , New York , Oil , police car , Saudi Arabia , Tear gas , Tehran , United Kingdom
STEVE ROYSTON: Tomorrow sees the publication of a report into the events of February and March of this year. Could it draw a line under those tragic events?
