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
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
