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
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Humza Yousaf, global citizen
Britain needs one, and only one, foreign policy
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
