Osborne is said to have asked how the British deployment can be justified to the public for the next two years, amid continuing casualties and doubts about the corrupt Afghan government.

The west will have to beat a retreat from Afghanistan, the only question, is will it be like America's scramble from Vietnam in 1975, or the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989?

Video: Paul Flynn MP speaks on the lies about Afghanistan told by the UK government, and urges people to join him and others at Stop the War Coalition's Naming the Dead protest on 7 October.

I remember cuing up a US Predator strike before deciding the computer screen wasn't depicting a Taliban insurgent burying an improvised explosive device in the road; rather, a child playing in the dirt.

This week another British soldier is likely to die. His death will be greeted with heroic rhetoric, implying that his sacrifice is keeping this country safe. That will be a lie.

David Cameron has never mentioned the name of a single Afghan killed, the majority of whom have been ordinary civilians caught in the middle of the West's war on one of the world's poorest countries.

The "insider attacks" by Afghan soldiers and police show American soldiers how much Afghans hate them and symbolise all that is wrong with their mission in Afghanistan.

Only one in ten thinks the lives lost and the cost of war has been 'worth it'. More than half say all troops should be brought home now.

Support is flooding in for Paul Flynn, the MP who on 18 September 2012 was expelled from parliament for saying the government was lying about Afghanistan.

MP Paul Flynn says government ministers are using British soldiers as human shields for ministers' reputations by sending them to die in vain in a war in Afghanistan which is lost.

Nato strategy for leaving Afghanistan by 2015 is in disarray but David Cameron is still sending British soldiers to kill and die in a war that is both pointless and lost.

More days of pointless carnage in Afghanistan left nine NATO soldiers dead -- four of them green-on-blue attacks -- and eight woman and girls collecting firewood killed by NATO.

The Royal Family has traditionally dressed up in uniforms to pretend that we're all in this together. That's why Prince Harry's return is being so widely publicised.

The NATO countries dumbly soldier on killing and being killed even though the situation is clearly spinning out of control and almost everybody hates the US-backed Afghan government.

As 'green-on-blue' attacks by members of the Afghan military and police increase, Washington scratches its head over why locals would continue to shoot the hand that liberates them.

Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind.