Time for Arthur's 25th installment of
Good news from Iraq.

May I beat up on the Beeb (again), which Arhtur quotes,Iraq struggles to educate children

Iraq used to have one of the highest levels of literacy in the Arab world and one of its best education systems, but two decades of war, sanctions and funding shortages under Saddam Hussein have turned it into one of the region's worst.

"Funding shortages", they say, not mentioning the largest fraud crime in the history of mankind . . . maybe it wasn't elegant enough?