LPK1990

How does political hostility towards certain countries affect tourists visiting the country? You mentioned in another answer that Americans are excluded from visiting certain areas due to their nationality. As an Australian, did they treat you more welcomingly than they would an American national? Did you develop any sense of how they feel about the United Kingdom? As a UK-national, it has always intrigued me whether the anti-US propaganda would indirectly also apply to their perception of UK nationals (and other US-allied countries), or whether NK is so 'cut off' from the world that they don't really have the capacity to make such observations and judgements.

Great AMA btw!

How are you handling the change of culture now that you reside in Sweden? I don't want to be presumptuous about Syrian society, but I can imagine there are particular aspects to it which is radically different to what you grew up with. For example, you grew up in a country which criminalised homosexuality with up to three years in prison, and you're now in a country which has openly LGBT citizens who can enter into a marriage. I suspect there's a variety of other drastic cultural differences you've also had to assimilate with? How have you managed that?

What is the general opinion (if there is one) of the United Kingdom amongst political asylum seekers? The media narrative here is that the UK is considered high-up on their 'target' list because of welfare etc etc, and our own Prime Minister has described refugees as a "swarm". I'm deeply skeptical about such a morally insidious media narrative, but that's a different discussion altogether. I'm curious whether it is well known amongst refugees how hostile the UK is?

I remember when I studied about ECT during my A-Level course in Psychology at college, and the way it was discussed always made it seem like it was a rather barbaric and inappropriate form of treatment. It was only when I was actually able to have conversations with Psychology majors that I learnt about the other side of the coin, and how it has been shown to actually yield some beneficial results in patients when other more conventional treatment methods have failed. However, none of them have ever really been able to actually provide any sort of answer about why ECT works, instead just knowing that it does in particular cases.

So, I guess my question is, what is it about ECT which allows it to work, when other treatment methods have not? Do we actually know why it is effective, or do we just know that it tends to be for some reason?

Did Nick Clegg genuinely convince you to go out and vote in the election?