What did we expect from the Arab Spring?

The Great Fire of London may have provided a smokescreen for the crisis in the Middle East, but it continues to rumble away as the number one issue on the foreign scene. “Things never turn out how you expect, dear boy,” Harold Macmillan once remarked to me. As an old Middle East watcher, dating back to the late Forties, when I worked for MI5 in Cairo, I’ve always recognised the validity of that observation in this corner of the world.

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