Cover Page, 2 September 2021, Issue 291

Welcome to our latest edition.  This week we consider: cash for assets; the Taliban and Political Islam; decline and stumble in the USA; definitions of childhood; what now for Afghanistan; a theory of everything; plus of course a Corbynista’s diary and cartoons from AGGro.

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Issue 291: 2021 09 02: Cash For Access

A part of the system

By John Watson

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Issue 291: 2021 09 02: The Qatar Connection

The Taliban & Political Islam

By Neil Tidmarsh

Comment

Issue 291: 2021 09 02: Decline and Stumble

Uncertainty in the US

By J.R.Thomas

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Issue 291: 2021 09 02: What is a Child?

Should there be more clarity?

By Lynda Goetz

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Issue 291: 2021 09 02: Diary of a Corbynista

Failures of the State

By Don Urquhart

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Issue 291: 2021 09 02: Voices of the Taliban

Where now for Afghanistan?

By Robert Kilconner

Features

Issue 291: 2021 09 02: The Theory of Everything

Strings in eleven dimensions

By Paul Branch

Cartoons

Issue 291: 2021 09 02: Cartoons

A Visual Perspective

By AGGro

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