Sounds about right to me (though who knows). They don't seem totally irrational, merely extremely fundamentalist. They can do pretty much what they like in the country now, why spoil it by forei… (View Post)

A small acknowledgement to Jeremy Hunt (my local MP). I raised an issue about a group of female vets and nurses working for a British charity in Kabul and asked him to try to get them included in the… (View Post)

I think that a lesson from all this is that if you really want to intervene somewhere you need to do it in support of someone with substantial local popularity, even if lots of other people hate him … (View Post)

Biden and the Democrats are Corbynite Labour? What are you drinking? (View Post)

There's an echo of this on my local council, which has been asked to provide support for settling for a few Afghan interpreters and their families. We've said emphatically yes - would be sh… (View Post)