The dos and don'ts for Britain in a new Syria

The UK has much to give and much to gain as Damascus rises from under the rubble of dictatorship. But using this momentous change to soothe our own migration paranoia shouldn't be on the list.

Most of the tectonic changes of the past dramatic, mostly tragic year in Middle East have been steeped in violence: from Israel’s meticulous ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, to its unrestrained attacks on Hezbollah (and any other Lebanese in the vicinity), to the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7 2023 - which didn’t start this conflict,…