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
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
