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
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
