Many years ago I did a cultural awareness course and rule one was this: You can criticise your own country and you can do it as much as you like. But when someone else does it, you remember all the things you actually love about it and - it's enraging.

"The most widely practiced disguise and justification of imperialism has always been the ideology of anti-imperialism." - Hans Morganthau, Politics Among Nations

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So much Ukraine insight in Armchair Oblast

So much Ukraine insight in Armchair Oblast

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Few ‘anti-imperialists’ realise just how imperialist the IRI really is.

No, she’s still there. She loves to sing but forbidden because: woman. Another friend just got a visa to study art history in Rome, after her previous study visa to Belgium was cancelled. I wish these pampered Western leftists could feel just 1% of the struggle of Iranian women to live freely.

I have an idea. Maybe Calla Walsh can swap places with my friend Mahtab is so desperate to leave Iran that she applied for a work visa to … Antarctica.

The reality is worse than the parody