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Lone Wolf by Ed Vulliamy
John Kay, the singer who gave us ‘born to be wild’, left east Germany and the Berlin wall behind in 1944. He has not forgotten his roots or the flight that brought him to the west.Anyone who has not heard......more
Burma deserves better by Philip Delves Broughton
The international community is good at moral outrage when dealing with the rangoon junta but always meets a stumbling block in geopolitical reality. Change in Burma will come only when the west decides to replace ineffectual sanctions with attempts to......more
Mr Blair: Was Jesus Wrong? If So, You Must Be Right by Peter Stanford
Illustration by Chris RiddellTony Blair is busy outing himself as a man of God. Which is immediately ironic after all that time during which Blair refused to “do God” – as his media manager Alastair Campbell informed us. Since leaving......more
Looted Britain by Frontline
Public utilities like telecom and gas and essential industries such as British Airways were sold off by the Tories in the closest thing, post-war, to legalised political corruption. What we all owned was taken away from us, flogged off at......more
Wonderwall: Why Berlin Still Matters? by Peter Millar
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Afghanistan: "A solution is going to look somewhat ugly"
The important international voices have been 'on message' about Afghanistan recently in time for a new British-led NATO offensive in the area around Marjah in Helmand province. At the London Conference last month there was talk of "turning the tide";......more
Frontline Club member Tim Hetherington wins award at Sundance
A huge congratulations from the Frontline Club to member Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger for their incredible success at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Their documentary Restrepo won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Comptetition. Restrepo is......more
Counterinsurgency blogged: A 30-day tour of Afghanistan
This looks like an interesting new blog which apparently kicks off today. US Tech Sergeants Ken Raimondi and Nathan Gallaghan are going to travel through five regional commands in Afghanistan blogging and vlogging along the way.Unsurprisingly, they think the story......more
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Counterinsurgency blogged: A 30-day tour of Afghanistan
by Daniel Bennett on February 8, 2010 9:46 PMposted in Daniel Bennett - Reporting War
Nathan, Thanks for dropping by. I suppose the key for me is that we hear from different perspectives. As you...
Counterinsurgency blogged: A 30-day tour of Afghanistan
by Nathan Gallahan on February 8, 2010 9:24 PMposted in Daniel Bennett - Reporting War
I'll admit, we won't have that level of access to Afghan voices as Holly Pickett has, but we're going to...
Afghanistan and the Grenadier Guards
by Eva Terry on February 2, 2010 1:52 AMposted in Vaughan Smith in Afghanistan
My friend, changes is really slow in that country for it is still in the midst of war between groups...