Afghanistan: the blame game
August 31, 2021 2:14 am Post a CommentJust before midnight Kabul time, the last USAF C-17 took off from the airport, bringing the 20-year engagement of US... View Article
Just before midnight Kabul time, the last USAF C-17 took off from the airport, bringing the 20-year engagement of US... View Article
While the Afghan saga continues to fester, I thought I would stay with the general theme introduced yesterday and, in particular, address... View Article
I didn’t campaign on ending freedom of movement largely because I didn’t think it would substantially reduce immigration. I was... View Article
As the Afghan evacuation drama at Kabul airport reaches its climax, attention is shifting to some of the land border... View Article
In its own way, the fall of Afghanistan is probably every bit as important as Brexit, with the repercussions just... View Article
Understandably, all eyes are on the tragedy of the multiple bombing outside Kabul airport, in which 12 US service personnel and over... View Article
I’m finding it extremely difficult to get worked up about the rush of publicity on the shortage of lorry drivers,... View Article
Despite Johnson’s attempts at the G7 virtual meeting to get the US president to extend the deadline for the airlift... View Article
So it seems we are to abandon an entire region to backward Islamist hill savages to become a terrorist haven... View Article
The Taliban is warning that any extension to the Biden’s 31 August deadline for ending the airlift from Kabul would... View Article
On 14 November 2001, after it had become clear that the Taliban regime was in a state of collapse across... View Article
With minimal media presence – for obvious reasons – and growing chaos at Kabul airport, it is no longer possible... View Article
It’s difficult to know where the Afghan situation is going at the moment. Understandably, the attention is on the stop-start... View Article
It is a fact that NATO cannot operate in Afghanistan without the USA. America does the heavy lifting. If America... View Article
In this complete change of pace, I mark the publication of the fourth edition of our book, The Great Deception (TGD), this... View Article
I couldn’t really bring myself to watch the parliamentary debate on Afghanistan. Lately I haven’t been feeling it. It was... View Article