Blog posts tagged "Afghanistan"

June 9, 2010 8:28 am 6 Comments

A short blog to start the day. I’m just off on the bike to chair an intriguing session for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Don’t often get the call from the military. But two very special guests today: Generals David Petraeus (US) and Peter Wall (UK) are to speak and interact with an audience.

January 4, 2010 11:06 am 23 Comments

Jon Snow looks forward to 2010 and the changes a general election, Iran, China and the next steps for a climate change deal.

November 18, 2009 12:40 pm No Comments

In the 93 years that separate the battle of the Somme from the UK's present engagement in Afghanistan, our tolerance of death on the battlefield has experienced a welcome revolution, blogs Jon Snow.

November 12, 2009 9:24 am No Comments

The cable to the White House from the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, for “no more troops” is a pretty shocking shot across the military’s bows. Following our own micro consultation with the UK public last night, one’s sense of confusion and mystification over the Afghan war only deepens. Here in the UK the [...]

November 11, 2009 11:02 am No Comments

Jon Snow anticipates that tonight's Armistice Day discussion on Channel 4 News will provoke a range of pointed questions about the UK's military involvement in Afghanistan

November 10, 2009 9:47 am No Comments

The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan attacks Gordon Brown for equipment shortages. Jon Snow blogs on the messy business of war for politicians.

November 4, 2009 4:56 pm No Comments

Jon Snow blogs on whether Labour is split now over our role in Afghanistan?

October 29, 2009 12:38 pm 18 Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow remembers his trip through Pakistan in 1970 following the bombing in Peshawar.

September 20, 2009 6:04 pm 2 Comments

This final session of the Pontignano conference is dominated by Obama: whether he will “make it”. Consensus is that on health care, on a domestic climate change bill, and even in terms of economic recovery, he will…eventually (though he’ll need two terms). How the participants here love Obama – he really does walk on water [...]

September 10, 2009 9:00 am No Comments

“We’re entitled to the protection of the First Amendment – no more.” So read my angry overnight text from an old New York Times friend with whom I survived reporting the civil war in El Salvador in the early nineteen eighties. We can be scandalised that the journalistic activities of Stephen Farrell, working in Afghanistan [...]