hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline: london. just one topic for us this week how 20 years of commitment to afghanistan dissolved in a matter of days and what the consequences may be for the people of afghanistan, its neighbours and the rest of the world. joining us are janet daley, columnist with the sunday telegraph, michael goldfarb, host of the podcast, the first rough draft of history, and with me in the studio, the guardian s china editor, vincent ni. welcome to all of you. it s good to have you with us. janet, let s begin with what this means, if we can, a little bit, for the uk. borisjohnson has been trying to develop an independent foreign policy. we know it s been pretty clear that this was not a decision that the british particularly wanted to take at this moment. what does this and what s happening in afghanistan tell
hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline: london. just one topic for us this week: how 20 years of commitment to afghanistan dissolved in a matter of days and what the consequences may be for the people of afghanistan, its neighbours and the rest of the world. joining us are janet daley, columnist with the sunday telegraph; michael goldfarb, host of the podcast, the first rough draft of history, and with me in the studio, the guardian s china editor, vincent ni. welcome to all of you. it s good to have you with us. janet, let s begin with what this means, if we can, a little bit, for the uk. borisjohnson has been trying to develop an independent foreign policy. we know it s been pretty clear that this was not a decision that the british particularly wanted to take at this moment. what does this and what s happening in afghanistan tell
hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together leading commentators in the uk with the correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline: london. just one topic for us this week how 20 years of commitment to afghanistan dissolved in a matter of days and what the consequences may be for the people of afghanistan, its neighbours and the rest of the world. joining us are janet daley, columnist with the sunday telegraph; michael goldfarb, host of the podcast, the first rough draft of history, and with me in the studio, the guardian s china editor, vincent ni. welcome to all of you. it s good to have you with us. janet, let s begin with what this means, if we can, a little bit, for the uk. borisjohnson has been trying to develop an independent foreign policy. we know it s been pretty clear that this was not a decision that the british particularly wanted to take at this moment. what does this and what s happening in afghanistan tell
the guardian s china editor, vincent knee. welcome to all of you. it s good to happy with us. janet, let s begin with what this means that if we can come a little bit, from the uk. brycejohnson has been trying to develop an independent foreign policy. we know it s been pretty clear that this was not a decision that the british particularly wanted to take at this moment. what is this and what s happening in afghanistan tell us about britain s influence in washington, its military capability and its ability to adopt a leadership role, do you think? well, it s not at all leadership role, do you think? well, it s not at all surprising leadership role, do you think? well, it s not at all surprising that - leadership role, do you think? in it s not at all surprising that the foreign policies of the uk and us should be disparaging, because they are prominent members of nato, and nato has been an exact existence of a crisis ever since the cold war ended. it was devised, if we all