http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/27/tunisia-does-the-harlem-shake/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/27/tunisia-does-the-harlem-shake/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:27:42 +0000 Lucy Provan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32856 Following the assassination of a major political leader and resignation of their Prime Minister, Tunisia is threatened by perhaps its most subversive political conspiracy yet: the Harlem Shake.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/27/tunisia-does-the-harlem-shake/feed/ 9 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/20/yemen%e2%80%99s-former-leader-opens-museum-dedicated-to-himself/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/20/yemen%e2%80%99s-former-leader-opens-museum-dedicated-to-himself/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:08:53 +0000 Lucy Provan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32704 Yemen’s former dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh recently returned to the country's capital Sana’a in order to open a museum about himself. Undeterred by the revolt that toppled him last year, in which demonstrators chanted “Saleh, leave, all the people hate you,” the ex-leader has decided to affirm his place in the country’s history through displays of his personal possessions.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/20/yemen%e2%80%99s-former-leader-opens-museum-dedicated-to-himself/feed/ 3