My evidence on Prevent to the House of Commons home affairs select committee yesterday is here – starting after the break at 15:44 parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/....

That said, if I and others seized of the matter understood that significant numbers of Afghans who'd helped the British military were leaving the country, then I'm sure the Taliban understood from an early stage what was happening 3/3

But it's a good indication of why the idea of banning things is always so popular: it pretends there are simple answers to complex problems. It means you don't really have to think.

Individual enrichment at the expense of the US nation and world economy? One wonders.

Yes. We’re also small, we hurt ourselves not the world. Lewis Goodall has written something interesting about the US bond market- investors atypically seeing it as risky, as i the US a problematic emerging market. Even Greek govt debt seen as more secure.