Afghanistan
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
Afghanistan and the lies we tell ourselves
The leaked “Afghanistan Papers” tell a story of cover-ups at every level of America’s longest war. But can we really expect anything different?
A vision of victimhood
Feminists have to do better in the fight against trans ideology
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
The wine of emperors
The puzzling economics of venison
The People’s Republic of Worcester College
A student dares to cross the red quad and speak out about a shoddy show trial
Playing pipeline politics
The Gulf countries may not be reliable partners against Russia
Ukraine’s patriotic master
The painter Ilya Repin straddled both Ukrainian and Russian cultures
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Not so perfidious Albion
Britain has proved a steadfast ally to Ukraine, whilst the EU has dragged its feet
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
Hen don’t
DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood