Too democratic

Barry Hyman, Bushey Heath

A Syrian refugee from Damascus has told the BBC he felt “oppressed” by left-wing protesters in London who shouted him down when, at a “Stop the War” demonstration outside Downing Street against the recent US air strike on a Syrian air base in response to the chemical weapon attack, he tried to challenge them by asking why they were protesting against that reprisal when they should be protesting against President Assad.

He also told the BBC that for those British left-wing protesters to have shouted