Britain is not doing well in Afghanistan...

. . . in the judgment of Richard North of EU Referendum. He points out, among other things, that in a recent attack on Jugroom Fort to retrieve the body of a dead British soldier, "[élite] British forces were repulsed by a numerically inferior force of Taliban". However, North also believes that the British news media are so incompetent at reporting military matters that civilian observers must largely resort to reasoning from first principles in order to get any idea of what is going on. Such deductions about the state of affairs in Afghanistan are necessarily tentative.