Ladies First?

Didn't we once "liberate" Afghanistan? And even when, after 20 years, we just handed it back to the Taliban, then were they not supposed to have been different ones? In a way, they were. The old ones never banned women from speaking.

And to what might Afghan women have looked for protection? To the Women's Equality Party, which is now to dissolve itself? That existed to promote the media careers of its well-heeled and well-connected stalwarts, in the way that the Official Monster Raving Loony Party exists to promote its members on the pub entertainment circuit, especially in the South East. The latter, however, is a far nobler endeavour, which is why there is no proposal to dissolve the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. 

There ought to have been an absolute requirement that a representative of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party have been featured whenever airtime was given to anyone from the Women's Equality Party. Newspapers and others ought also to have considered such balance to have been good practice. Someone might then have pointed out the lunacy of having "liberated" Afghanistan by having made it even worse than ever. Or of having a Women's Equality Party that could not define a woman.