Will Dominic Raab be forced to resign?
The Foreign Secretary isn’t to blame for the Afghanistan debacle, but for many Conservative MPs, he’s a good scapegoat.
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Rory Stewart: Afghanistan marks the end of liberal interventionism
The former cabinet minister on why there was no need for the US to withdraw from Afghanistan
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The Afghanistan crisis has exploded Boris Johnson’s “Global Britain” delusions
The assumptions made as the UK wrecked its relationship with the EU have been destroyed by the US retreat.
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Afghanistan’s plight and its contested future are a reassertion of the brutal realities of geography
The Taliban takeover could spark a contest for influence between regional powers such as China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan
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The Afghanistan crisis shows Europe cannot wall itself off from the world
As migration linked to conflict and climate change escalates, the EU will need to rethink its approach to refugees.
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Why the government’s pledge to take 20,000 Afghan refugees is inadequate
Twenty thousand is the same number Britain resettled from Syria, a country close to half the size of Afghanistan – and…
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Afghanistan Withdrawal: the best of The New Statesman’s articles
Read all our reporting and analysis of the Taliban’s takeover and the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Why Tories are in despair over Boris Johnson’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis
Conservatives are stuck with a leader incapable of taking important decisions and who is held in contempt by his Western peers.
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