We Don't Need Your Kind Here

Mehdi Kazemi, an Iranian asylum seeker, has been temporarily unfailed by the Minister of Deportation and Detention. Kazemi is homosexual, which carries the death penalty in Iran; the British government, with its usual sensitive understanding of what it's like to be nineteen, helpfully advised him that "he would be safe in Iran if he was discreet about his sexuality". Evidently it would never occur to the mad mullahs to read the infidel English press and connect the Mehdi Kazemi mentioned therein with the disgruntled young man being kicked off an aeroplane into the Islamic Republic. Kazemi has said that he "will only feel safe if the Home Secretary personally guarantees his right to remain in Britain", which shows that, despite previous experience of the business end of our asylum policy, he still has much to learn about the personal honour of our rulers in this Mother of Democracies.