Some excellent journalism for the weekend

I will always try and point the readers of this blog towards good journalism and tanks to Alice Fishburn for this article from Anthony Loyd in Standpoint this month.

He reports from Bajaur in Afghanistan as the fight against the Taliban continues

The moment the bomb exploded, our Frontier Corps driver slammed on the brakes. I wished he hadn't. If ever there was a moment to floor the accelerator that was it. The October sun was dropping fast. Slopes and broken ground stretched above either side of the road. We were less than an hour's drive away from the battlefield in Bajaur and the loyalty of the surrounding tribes was far from assured.