Tory Defence Committee chair could be ousted over “Taliban propaganda”
The Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has published a widely ridiculed video praising the Afghan government.
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You won’t ever forget Channel 4’s Afghanistan documentary Evacuation
Give this revelatory series your time. Let it rip open your heart.
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The Taliban’s Afghanistan: murder, repression and economic devastation
The de facto government remains an international pariah, but it's the Afghani people that suffer.
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Iraq made Donald Trump inevitable
The populist backlash was a reaction to elite-driven failures in the Middle East.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War
How do you mourn soldiers killed in an “unjust” war? For years the town of Wootton Bassett showed us how.
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A cruise ship for Ukrainians exposes a hierarchy of refugees
Why has the UK spent up to £100m on cruise ships for those fleeing the Russian invasion, when others in…
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Letter of the week: Our duty to Afghanistan
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Yalda Hakim’s Diary: Afghanistan’s freezing winter, secret schools for girls, and the crime of being a woman
After the Taliban took over I met many women who told me they had no intention of leaving – but…
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