Better in Basra

LFIQ Vice-President and former North East Derbyshire MP, Harry Barnes, who spent most of his National Service at Basra in Iraq back in 1955 and 1956 cites a Daily Telegraph report outlining how the city, which was among the most liberated, secular and artistic cities in the Arab world has now started to overcome some of its recent problems after the Mahdi militia’s strict Islamic stranglehold.