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Regional rugby: time for change
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Something of the night
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Judgement time … almost
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Greece is the word
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This is league tables
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Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’
Have we stopped understanding dictatorship?
Our wars became more complicated – and our leaders are to blame
Brian Haw
Brian Haw, the peace campaigner variously described as a ‘hero’ and a ‘national disgrace’ during his long stay in Parliament Square has passed away at the age of 62
‘International aid is at a crossroads’
A new Oxfam report shows how the use of humanitarian aid in support of security objectives in countries like Afghanistan has proved counter-productive and, in some cases, disastrous. Now it’s the UK’s turn to decide
The Linda Norgrove question that won’t go away
Earlier today the Prime Minister, David Cameron was almost an hour late for a press conference – that’s unheard of. So when he arrived there was clearly something to say. And, sure enough Cameron announced that the UK hostage Linda Norgrove may have been killed by a grenade thrown by USA forces as part of [...]
Shock and floored
Neoconservatism grew up out of our finest ideals, yet today it is almost universally reviled. What took it on this journey?
The new angels
Soldiers have replaced nurses at the pinnacle of public sacrifice to which we all pretend to aspire. But eulogising their efforts – no matter how rightly intended – is another example of our increasingly wonky values
Osama bin Laden no longer matters
Far-fetched ideas on what lay behind the 9-11 attacks only serve to muddy the maters and hide a far more complex truth about the Islamist figurehead
General Dostum and the flipping future
Today’s Afghanistan election removes yet another Western justification for remaining in the country. So what we should do now is stop fighting and start flipping
Ignore the lessons of history
Comparisons with past conflicts ignore underlying and fundamental issues with our mission in Afghanistan. The key question is not can the coalition win, but who is it fighting – and why?
Fighting the enemy, the Quartermaster – and the state
Far from threatening the viability of the British Army, litigious relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan are helping to ensure the government properly prosecutes the wars in which it it becomes involved
Back at the beginning again
The US now has its best chance to win in Afghanistan, but is its strategy right, and will it achieve the purposes for war?
Go east and solve this problem
Pakistan on the brink undermines the West’s Afghanistan effort and could put more British soldiers at risk
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