It is exactly a year this Sunday since the fall of Kabul, when Taliban fighters marched unopposed into the Afghan capital after the withdrawal of western forces and the collapse of the Afghan army. What ensued was one of the biggest foreign policy debacles in recent times. Nearly two decades after its barbaric rule had been brought to an end by the allied intervention in 2001, the Taliban seized control of the government barely having had to fire a shot. Western governments were forced to scramble to evacuate their own citizens and those Afghans most at risk from reprisals. Overnight, two decades of attempted state-building, upon which western nations including Britain, had expended so much blood and treasure, came to an end.
For most Afghans,
