During this election campaign a figure of speech passed from novelty to cliché: ‘the elephant in the room’. Various elephants — spending cuts, the national debt, the reform of the NHS — were nominated for the role.
But one poor beast never even got into the room. The Afghan war has been distant from our thoughts.
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