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By Jonathan Cook Watching the BBC’s coverage of the election, you could be excused for taking away two main impressions of last night’s results. First,...

Blairites declare UK Labour party unelectable By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden Labour’s right wing is now openly campaigning for a defeat for the party in...

Before addressing the issues raised in the Iraq Inquiry report, I would like to remember and honour the 179 British servicemen and women killed...

Sir John Chilcot's public statement, 6 July 2016 We were appointed to consider the UK’s policy on Iraq from 2001 to 2009, and to identify...

A defiant Tony Blair defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 following the publication of a devastating report by Sir John Chilcot, which mauled the ex-prime minister’s reputation and said that at the time of the 2003 invasion Saddam Hussein “posed no imminent threat”.

The UK has stepped up its criticism of US conduct of the Iraq war, with the foreign secretary saying the single most disastrous mistake was the mass removal of supporters of the Ba’ath party from the Iraqi army, which he claimed led directly to the formation of Islamic State.

By David Coates The Democratic Party primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is being fought in the shadow of “neoliberalism” – in the...

By David Runciman Since he left office in 2007 Tony Blair has been hawking his wares around the world, from Nigeria to Kazakhstan. What has...

IT SEEMS barely credible that the summer of 2015 in Europe has been marked by the biggest refugee crisis that most of us can...