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
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
