Afghanistan
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
The Second Coming of George W. Bush
The public image of the 43rd President of the United States has undergone a surprising revival
Where does American strategy go from here?
What are the strategic options for American defence policy following the Afghanistan withdrawal?
Inside the memory of 9/11
Twenty years later, it’s hard to remember how the world reacted with a unity unthinkable today
A special place in hell
Why the “special relationship” needs to end
What now for Britain’s armed forces?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the future role of Britain’s armed forces
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Letter from Washington: The America they knew
This week’s US casualties in Kabul lived through a tragically narrow slice of American history
Liberalism’s graveyard
Afghanistan is where ideologies go to die
Pet Mischief
In a serious country serious people would resign over Pen’s pets
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
