Donald Trump has put the world in a far better place without evil Qasem Soleimani

Evil at an end

THE world is a far better place without war criminal Qasem Soleimani.

He was the truly evil mastermind of the slaughter of countless innocents in the Middle East and had the blood of many British and US troops on his hands.

Naturally, there are worries that ­Donald Trump has lit the fuse for fresh ­violence.

But Iran and its proxies unleash constant savagery already, until yesterday under Soleimani’s personal direction.

He was the architect of ­horrors in multiple countries.

He will be mourned only by Iran’s Islamic fundamentalists and, of course, by Jeremy Corbyn and his hard-left anti-American nitwits.

But Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s reaction was mealy-mouthed too.

Of course it would be good for both sides to “de-escalate”.

True, “further conflict is in none of our interests”.

Mr Raab might have added a full-throated condemnation of Soleimani, effectively the world’s No1 terrorist, whose victims outnumber those of Bin Laden or al-Baghdadi.

Yes, the US should have warned Britain of the drone strike, given the heightened danger now to our 900 troops in Iraq and Syria. But it had to act rapidly.

Iranian reprisals may be inevitable.

But standing back hasn’t done the West much good.

The mullahs at least now need to factor in a US President who’s more ruthless than the last.

Three days ago Ayatollah Khamenei taunted him over the storming of the US embassy in Baghdad. “You can’t do anything,” he sneered.

Trump’s put him straight there.

Wise up, Jess

WHAT is this spell Labour’s Jess Phillips casts over Blairites and media pundits? We don’t get it.

We do not doubt her hard work, nor that her heart is in the right place.

Many naively believe her Brummie accent makes her the true voice of the working-class — this middle-class, grammar-schooled daughter of an NHS executive and a teacher.

But that’s not our real beef. It’s the toe-curling, overwrought Commons monologues designed for social media.

And the needlessly vitriolic and hysterical Twitter rants.

Consider this gem: “The greatest lie ever told is that Boris is likeable, with cut-through outside ­London.” That aged well, as they say.

Phillips may yet be Labour’s best hope as leader, God help them.

But to be seen as a serious politician, she should start acting like one.

Police farce

IT is obvious the teenager convicted of lying about her gang-rape in Cyprus signed a bogus dictated confession under duress.

Its dodgy English smacks of a foreign cop, not an articulate young Brit.

The Foreign Office must act. This judicial farce has gone too far already.

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