IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO IT'S MARJI!

BEDFORD ROAD: I finished Persepolis last night. The coming of age story of a precocious young girl of liberal parents in revolutionary Iran is up their with the very best graphic novels I have ever read.

If anybody wants an insight into recent Iranian history this is as good a place as any to start. And that fact that it is told through the eyes of a world weary, but nevertheless still innocent, ten-year-old girl makes it even more poignant.