Chris Bayliss

Chris Bayliss is an independent consultant whose main interest is the energy sector in Iraq. He tweets at @baylissbaghdad

We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people

It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power

You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse

A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power

There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise

It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored

Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government

Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures

They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour