The foreign secretary was in good company in woefully misjudging the Taliban threatMany of the excitable characters who impulsively phone talk radio stations without having thought through their contradictory positions are rightly horrified by footage …
Afghans face catastrophe without urgent aid, UN warns
As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK’s ‘complacent’ responseAfghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless …
The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy
When a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel en route to Christmas Island, it sparked a crisis that led to hardline border policies and indelibly shifted the response to boat arrivalsEven to Abbas Nazari’s disoriented sev…
Investigation of alleged Australian war crimes could be hindered by fall of Afghan government
The Office of the Special Investigator is unlikely to be able to conduct evidence-gathering in Afghanistan any time soonGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe agency set up to investigate alleged war crimes by Australian special force…
This Week in Apps: OnlyFans bans sexual content, SharePlay delayed, TikTok questioned over biometric data collection
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices […]
Afghan child refugees left without support in Home Office hotels
Charities accuse the government of failing to meet young asylum seekers’ basic needs, despite care pledge Child refugees from Afghanistan are being held by the Home Office in hotels for weeks on end without shoes, spare clothes, money or access to heal…
Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab fail Afghanistan – cartoon
The prime minister and the foreign secretary do a good job of delegation – and not much else• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading…
After the chaos in Kabul, is the American century over?
The ‘forever war’ has finished with a debacle. If this marks the end of American interventionism, what will take its place?A few months ago there were US bases all over Afghanistan where you could immerse yourself in Americana, buy Coke and Snickers ba…
After Afghanistan, the Pax Americana is over – as is Nato. About time too
Biden’s Afghan chaos means Europe can no longer rely on him. Let’s hope a more balanced security relationship emergesThe North Atlantic measurably widened last week. The more Joe Biden tried to shift blame for the Afghan chaos, the bigger the gulf with…
Top Taliban leader flies into Kabul for talks on setting up new Afghan regime
Abdul Ghani Baradar will meet with ‘legal, religious and foreign policy experts’ and notorious militantsAbdul Ghani Baradar, one of the Taliban’s top leaders, arrived in Kabul on Saturday as senior figures began talks on how they will govern Afghanista…