“Talibros.” That’s how self-styled British adventurer and incel pinup Miles Routledge refers to the Taliban gunmen who held him hostage for eight months in a filthy Kabul guesthouse. They are not psychopaths, kidnappers, or extortionists; they are his brothers and “best mates.” He can’t wait to get back to Afghanistan for a reunion.

The baby-faced man-child who calls himself “Lord” Miles Routledge—though he is not a British aristocrat—was freed on October 10, in a deal that was finalized as Hamas terrorists were killing approximately 1,400 Israeli people and taking hundreds more hostage.