Well, there’s a surprise.

The Syrian leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani has presided over an appalling massacre of the Druze in Suweida, Syria. At time of writing an estimated 300 have been slaughtered by his troops.

Despite the fact that al Jolani was previously a jihadi with both al Qaeda and Isis, that the US designated his faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist group and that between 2006 and 2011 he was jailed by the Americans, people in the west have been falling over themselves to hail him as a born-again moderate and statesman.