Among the other indignities perpetrated on poor Arthur Batchelor was the following:

“A guard kept flicking my neck with his index finger and thumb. I thought the worst.”

Well, who wouldn’t? Stephen Colbert put it best the other night: God help Britain when the Iranians develop the Wet Willy.

[Now cue mocking remarks from New Republic writers, suggesting that I missed Colbert’s ironic point and that in fact, because I do not appreciate that he is playing a character, the joke in fact meant that the Iranians were in the right.]