The Murderous Reality is Far Different

“People began to ask why they should die for a lost cause and not reach an agreement with the Taliban as the Americans had just done”

The US and UK military intervention in the country is ending in a humiliating debacle – this was always likely

What explains the descent of the Republican Party into fascism? Racial division explains much. The division of American culture along the same geographical lines as the civil war explains more

For all the self-congratulatory talk about Britain donating vaccines to the world’s poor, it is in practice knowingly parasitic on their ill-funded health systems

The death toll was so high because of the government’s disastrous on-off approach to lockdowns that gave the virus long periods of free range

Focusing on injustices in just a few ‘bad’ nations is a dangerous game

Corruption is turbocharged when companies become convinced that they cannot successfully do business with the government without having facilitators at the decision-making level inside it

Demanding rigorous implementation of the law against opponents while ignoring it oneself is part of the rich political tradition of Northern Ireland

“Sanctions and other measures that are meant to penalise repressive rulers usually wind up hurting ordinary people the most”