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Jon Snow
I was in London’s Primrose Hill on Saturday night, at a cafe across the bridge from the railway line. Upon emerging I was immediately caught up in a vast crocodile of young people snaking right back into the village. Its head wound across the bridge and down the hill to the Roundhouse. What struck me…
It is very hard today to read the foreign secretary’s new strategy for Afghanistan. The aims of Nato are laudable. They are invariably necessary and they are vital for the security of both Britons and Afghans alike. But, worringly, they are becoming more unattainable every day.
Jon Snow
When history comes to review the Brown government, it has every chance of proving an unhappy event. Gordon Brown’s takeover from Tony Blair settled uneasily into a sad and dispossessed period of ‘readjustment’ to the global financial catastrophe. But one of history’s other asides in reviewing the Brown government may yet come to rest on…