The doctators: why are so many tyrants medically qualified?

Bashar al-Assad worked at the Western Eye Hospital on Marylebone Road from 1990 to 1994 -

Syrian nationals who fled to the UK since the civil war began in 2011 have said they are planning to return home, while jubilant demonstrators gathered in Piccadilly Circus, central London last weekend to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, chanting and waving Syrian flags.

The Assad regime was notorious for its extreme cruelty and routine use of torture and state killing, as well as its savage attempts to suppress campaigners for democracy and freedom.