Thursday 23 June 2022

Afghanistan, the unhappy country

 It says a lot about our conservative, nationalistic BBC news division that the lead item on Breakfast this morning, and one that dominated the rest of the bulletin was the rail strike in England and Wales. The thousand and more people who died in the earthquake which struck the provinces of Paktika and Khost in Afghanistan yesterday were felt to be of no concern to a domestic audience.

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