Not sure the relatives of the 111 people who died from it yesterday would agree. We're clearly over the worst, and entitled to take pleasure from increasing normality, but it's too early to… (View Post)

You can't rely on public opinion being stable on war issues - quite understandably they respond to events, and less understandably they often forget that they previously thought differently. (View Post)

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)