Pedantry Alert.

There is an important difference between a military coup and a military mutiny.

In a military coup the military conspires amongst itself and then tries to impose it's will on the people. If you believe the rumours about Sadat's assassination this is how Mubarak came to power in Egypt in the first place. In a military mutiny however the public conspire amongst themselves and then the military impose the will of the people on an unpopular or illegitimate leader.

What is happening in Egypt at the moment is a mutiny with broadly two camps in the military. One camp which simply wishes to overthrow Mubarak and another camp which wishes to overthrow Mubarak and replace him with Suleiman because that's the CIA's choice.

The problem I have is that Mubarak has so badly lost his grip on reality he doesn't know that's going on. Instead he thinks that if he can trick me into some complicated mind game his British allies will reward him by helping him break the protests and allow him to stay in power after September. Obviously this makes it very difficult for me to post about the situation in Egypt or indeed anything else because today I posted about my problems with British Gas and Mubarak assumed that something to do with him.

So basically what I'm saying is that regardless of what I may or may not post tomorrow it's all down to the Egyptian people