These are the Arab countries the Foreign Office currently advises it is safe to visit: Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Jordan. Call this list A.
These are the Arab countries the Foreign Office currently advises avoiding travel to, or to some regions at least: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, the Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Call this list B.
Anyone notice a pattern here? Answer at the end.
I have to admit to not having a clue whether we should be getting involved in Syria. For the first time yesterday morning I listened to Radio 4 and felt there to be a sort of right-wing bias to it, the entire news story presented as if Jeremy Corbyn was wrong; I know that party splits are of great interest to the media, but maybe Corbyn is right and we shouldn’t be getting involved in Syria – who knows?
I don’t know whether there really are 70,000 ‘moderate’ Syrian opposition soldiers ready to fight Isis, as the Prime Minister claims.
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