Update: The toad is in the hole. Repeat: The toad is in the hole. Please don’t take that coded communique as anything other than a coincidental metaphor for Nick Griffin’s presence in Damascus. Bizarrely, he’s there, he says, to gather facts about the civil war. I’m not sure what he plans to do with these “facts”, which are bound to reach him in unadulterated, unbiased form coming as they do entirely from the Syrian government. But Griffin is not a man of facts; he is a man of prejudice and his adoption of convenient facets of anti-Zionist/BDS rhetoric in weird conjunction with his warped view of Islam is nothing if not indicative of someone who selectively and unfairly misuses the views of others to…