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What kind of future do we want for ourselves…? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
We are at the fork in the road that leads to our future. If we go down one fork, then the future is dark, cloudy and dangerous. It’s a future where dodgy regimes all over the world can get their chemi...
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers… 23 Aug 2013 | 02:28 pm
Apparently, you need a new car. A bigger house. A new TV. A sofa. A big kitchen, with shiny metal appliances. A wifi enabled music streaming device that brings you all the music the world has ever pro...
Larkin was right… 12 Aug 2013 | 09:17 am
In the house of the depressives, the happy child is king. Or queen. Or something. It’s a crap misquote, but it’s sadly true. When the grown-ups are both under the cosh of depression and pain and hurt,...
A million miles away… 1 Aug 2013 | 01:05 pm
Two years ago, not far from today’s date, this photograph was taken. I posted it this morning over on Twitter, with the caption ‘This feels like it was a million years ago and a million miles away…’ ...
Some good days, some bad days… 12 Jul 2013 | 01:11 am
Days matter. Monday everyone is down and miserable the weekend has finished and the long week ahead – the drudgery of work stretches out before us, Friday the world is happy and the promise of the wee...
Talking to the enemy doesn’t betray the dead. It honours them…. 19 Jun 2013 | 08:59 pm
On the day that the Afghan government said it had taken over responsibility for combat operations across the whole of the country and after 12 years of invasion, war, occupation and counter-insurgency...
Talking to the enemy doesn’t betray the dead. It honours them…. 19 Jun 2013 | 08:59 pm
On the day that the Afghan government said it had taken over responsibility for combat operations across the whole of the country and after 12 years of invasion, war, occupation and counter-insurgency...
Detached… 8 Mar 2013 | 01:35 am
I have been out of the military for just under three months, although I have lived away from the military life for about 6 months. And as I have said several time I have not really missed military li...
Detached… 8 Mar 2013 | 01:35 am
I have been out of the military for just under three months, although I have lived away from the military life for about 6 months. And as I have said several time I have not really missed military li...
Play Fair… 12 Feb 2013 | 03:49 am
In Afghanistan, we rely upon friendly Afghan local civilians to help us do our work out there. When I was working out there, helping in the reconstruction work, it would have been impossible for me t...
