I had a discussion, footage of which follows below, with the popular and well-known internet entity Thunderf00t broadly on the subject of Islam and modernity. The background to all of this is on this video. xD.

The headline on the front page of the new, positive London Evening Standard reads 10 troops died and ‘only 150 Afghans voted’ Note the quotation marks. What’s inside them is never referenced to anyone. The ‘story’ is that only 150 people voted in Babaji. A second story is that ten British soldiers died in Operation [...]

Ahead of tomorrow’s poll, I thought it might be useful to look at who’s still in the race for the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Runners and riders come below the fold along with a brief comment from me.

Iain Dale asks why we should accept people who aren’t connected with Britain from Guantánamo Bay. These are my reasons why we should. Firstly, it is in our strategic interest for two reasons. I will look at the morality and legality later, but it is enough to say that many states and people, friendly, neutral [...]

The UK’s commander in Helmand, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, has said that we shouldn’t expect a decisive military victory in Afghanistan; I wholeheartedly agree. He should have added that there was never going to be a military victory in Afghanistan. Setting up the Afghan government was never going to be enough, either. The international community needs [...]