Taliban
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
The right way to mark this Afghan war anniversary
It really didn’t have to turn out this way
The suicide bomber and me
A trip to Afghanistan to report on the destruction of the opium crop almost resulted in death
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Did WhatsApp just cost America Afghanistan?
Rather than fight, the Taliban appear to have phoned everyone in the country
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
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
