Summer fun

It’s summertime and the living is easy… isn’t that how the song goes? I’m not so sure it’s right. In the good old days there was a combined July/August issue of The Dentist, however this year we decided to continue working right on through the summer… as Del Boy might say “holidays are for wimps”. I don’t mind admitting I’m a wimp and would like a holiday… I was particularly keen when I saw the prices of some last minute deals to Egypt!

Ah Egypt, a land of such history, such beauty, such… an interesting take on the idea of parliamentary democracy. If the recent events took place anywhere else they would be described as a coup d’etat but it seems that’s a term that is too pejorative for US and British foreign offices. The ‘removal’ of the president so clearly celebrated in the streets has been seen as some sort of victory for the ‘will of the people’. Forget the millions who voted just over 12 months earlier to place the president in power, and the abandonment of the rule of law, the protestors in the streets apparently represent the real will. Should people accept the elected leader or are they right to challenge and overthrow them if they don’t like some of the rules imposed?