Afghanistan War
Sanctions don’t work
Why do we keep resorting to them?
The right way to mark this Afghan war anniversary
It really didn’t have to turn out this way
The suicide bomber and me
A trip to Afghanistan to report on the destruction of the opium crop almost resulted in death
Inside the memory of 9/11
Twenty years later, it’s hard to remember how the world reacted with a unity unthinkable today
Boris – an optimist even in military defeat
Boris brooks no insult of our hardworking men and women in khaki and pinstripe
Cold War rematch
The winners of the Cold War turned out to be the authoritarians, not the democrats
“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”
Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?
Born on the Fourth of July
Us Brits need to come to an honest reckoning over what happened in Afghanistan
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
