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Read the New Statesman’s latest comment, long-read features and analysis on Afghanistan.
An Afghan hotel that has seen it all
Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a vivid and personal display of Afghanistan’s turbulent political history
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As the Taliban erases Afghan women, the world looks away
The internet blackout has shut down the last hope of education for women in Afghanistan
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The Afghan data scandal and the sins of New Labour
The British state remains in thrall to Blairite adventurism.
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PMQs review: The Afghan data scandal hits Westminster
Kemi Badenoch couldn’t weaponise an event dating from her time in government – while Starmer prioritised party discipline.
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The great Afghan cover-up
This data breach is a humiliation of the British state – and its pretensions to intervene abroad.
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What Britain owes Afghanistan
The resettlement scandal doesn't change the history between the UK and its Afghan allies.
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The Tories are responsible for the Afghan resettlement fiasco
Yet another landmine left behind by the last Conservative government explodes in Labour's faces.
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The mutation of jihad
Spectacular global terror is losing ground to a new form of Islamist governance.
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Hollywoodgate is a glimpse of the Taliban at work
This revelatory film follows two soldiers in Afghanistan during the country’s regime change.
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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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Harry’s talk of Taliban kills shows he wants to have it both ways
He presents himself as the progressive beacon for emotional literacy in his family, while seeming to speak callously and insensitively…
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Stop feigning surprise over the Taliban university ban
We knew it was coming – Western politicians are engaged in meaningless posturing.
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