Kasra Aarabi in the JC on why we need to support the overthrow of the Islamist regime in Tehran: Let me spell this out clearly – and explain why this is not a problem confirmed to the Middle East. For 47 years, the official slogan of this regime has been “Death to England”. These aren’t…

Talking of the Kurds….conflicting reports from the Jerusalem Post. On the one hand – The Kurdistan region of Iraq fears being dragged into Iran war: In the five days since the US and Israel began airstrikes on Iran, the Iranian regime has lashed out at many countries. One of the places being hit hardest is the autonomous…

I missed this last week – Andrew Doyle’s The woke era: a video retrospective. There is little doubt that historians of the future are going to look back on the ‘woke’ era with utter bafflement. How is it that intelligent people were suddenly caught up in this identity-obsessed hysteria? Why did they forget that free…

On Hampstead Heath:

Has their time come at last? Knowing their unfortunate history of betrayal by the powers-that-be, that’s a question the answer to which is almost certainly no. Matt Broomfield at UnHerd: Iran’s Kurds first declared autonomy back in 1946, but that Soviet-sponsored project was crushed by the regime of the young Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Western-backed…

In the region, yes. There’s always the grim Kim dynasty in North Korea – but that’s another story. Added:

Ameer Kotecha, former British consul general in Ekaterinburg, on why he’s finally resigned from the Foreign Office: Nearly five years ago, on the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, I was among several thousand officials invited to mark World Afro Day (for those unaware: “a global day of celebration and liberation of Afro hair”) with…