Afghanistan
Tom Tugendhat’s empty rhetoric
What is the government supposed to do with Tom’s “rage”?
Did WhatsApp just cost America Afghanistan?
Rather than fight, the Taliban appear to have phoned everyone in the country
Letter from Washington: Biden’s big truths and little lies
The president’s self-styled straight talking is less honest than it seems
The Afghanistan Withdrawal
Did Biden make the right call?
Britain’s military performance in Iraq and Afghanistan
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the performance of the British forces in the war on terror
“Will this do?”
Johnson’s statement on Afghanistan was, as ever, a masterpiece of bare adequacy
Sticking plaster
We could never have achieved the laudable aims of a “New Afghanistan”
Could monarchy have saved Afghanistan?
America’s republican prejudices stopped them from restoring a unifying king
Letter from Washington: A final miscalculation in Afghanistan
The bungled US withdrawal marks a low point in the Biden presidency
Major Lapse
How can a man who leaves state secrets at the bus stop keep his job?
Celebrating the cycle of life
The universal realities of life, love and death are at the core of the strength of the monarchy
Compulsory voting — the solution to our gerontocratic crisis?
Young people have been written out of British politics: it’s time to let them back in
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
Timely reminder of the true price of oil
‘Disorder’ argues convincingly that world history now hinges on the price of oil
Oldham report shames us all
Victims were failed at every level — could there be more cases to come?
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Iron secretary
He didn’t quite dress up as Maggie, but he did everything but