What’s the chance of the Chilcott Iraq Inquiry arriving at a satisfactory objective conclusion? Andy Beckett asks in The Guardian if the inquiry can do a better job than past whitewashes. Then there are the inquisitors themselves. None of them is a lawyer, despite the Iraq war being a minefield of legal issues. All are […]
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What sort of madness is it that makes a person insist in the face of facts, principles and public opposition, that they alone are right in taking an action that results in over a million civilian deaths, impoverishes us as a nation and rips up our moral fabric? What sort of moral bankruptcy allows that
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I just received the above from my friend, John Mendelsohn (Christopher Milk, Sparks, critic on Rolling Stone). John wrote and performed My Country Tortured, a haunting song about the realisation of what America did under the Bush administration. Another excellent track is The Afghanistan Song by Superbia, a two-man outfit I met at the St
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Remember “Yo, Blair!”? I was going to bring you video footage of a graphic novel launch on Sunday at the ICA where German comics star Reinhard Kleist brought out his first English language book, Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness, but battles with my new Final Cut Express 4 and a stupid new iMovie version
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With the news that Metropolitan police are to be allowed to wear Union flag badges supporting British troops currently on action in Afghanistan, I was surprised to hear Eddie Mair on yesterday’s BBC Radio 4’s PM programme taking a hostile stance towards Stop The War’s spokesperson, Chris Nineham. Chris did a stolid job if a
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Thanks to Louise who just found this item on Tony Blair and Iraq at the Observer. Tony Blair urged Gordon Brown to hold the independent inquiry into the Iraq war in secret because he feared that he would be subjected to a “show trial” if it were opened to the public, the Observer can reveal.
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