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?
Letter from Washington: Afghan blues
The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache
Staying out is the hard part
There are no dominoes to fall in Afghanistan
Afghanistan outsourced
Does Biden’s withdrawal include the thousands of mercenaries keeping it going?
Letter from Washington: Biden ends America’s longest war
Oliver Wiseman on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan this week
Is America really back?
Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan shows a reluctance to do things that are hard and necessary
Born on the Fourth of July
Us Brits need to come to an honest reckoning over what happened in Afghanistan
Squaring the Afghan Peace Deal
Afghanistan is a general disaster which touches everyone and was enabled by everyone
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
