Max Jeffery

The games are designed to wind up old-guard sporting bureaucrats

Adherents believe that technological progress is the best way to fix the world’s problems

Ahmad Massoud and the National Resistance Front believe that, if aided by the West, they can save Afghanistan

The happiness business is just the newest incarnation of a decades-old western addiction to self-care

Countries whose last experience of combat was against Islamic State terrorists are having to adjust to very different circumstances