What is Putin’s game?
What happens when you boil a frog? It doesn’t notice the warming water until it is too late. According to…
China’s parade spells trouble for Taiwan
The massive military parade in Beijing today definitively marks the end of the post-World War Two era. Nominally, the 80th Anniversary…
How Britain ended up in the Afghan asylum mess
The Afghan data leak has generated a mass of lurid headlines and, no doubt, there is still much analysis, pointing…
How the UK failed the army interpreters stranded in Afghanistan
We lost. Whatever hope we had that we could help Afghanistan crawl out of its misery has been shattered. The…
We need to act now to save the army’s Afghan interpreters
In July 2010, near the end of my two-year tour as defence attaché in Kabul, I was phoned by the…
