The UK’s Inquiry into the Iraq war and the UK’s role in it kicks off again this week. Technically known as TheThe Iraq Inquiry but more conventionally known as the Chilcot inquiry […]
Party conference on, dude!
It’s high political season in the UK, with the Lib Dem and Labour party conferences going on over the past week. The big news, of course, is that the Labour party has […]
Journey's End
Well, the advance sales on Tony Blair’s autobiography (A Journey—how’s that for a title?) must not be shaping up the way the publisher had hoped. First, we learned that the publisher was […]
That Libya thing
There’s a whole lot of ink being spilled, and much, much more to come, over the US Senate’s whining over the early release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted by Scottish […]
Chilcot yesterday–Well, that’s sorted, then
The Chiclot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq picked up again at the end of June, and has been continuing to take testimony. There was a significant bombshell yesterday, […]
UK election update: Six days to go, but who's counting?
One of these men will be the next Prime Minister of the UK We had the last debate yesterday, and according to the pollsters, Cameron won. Whatever that means. Well, we know […]
Election update: Clegg 2, Murdoch 0
We had our second debate last night, and it went pretty well the way it was expected to—Gordon Brown and David Cameron apparently decided that they didn’t want to be Nick Clegg’s […]
Election Update–Strange Days in Britain
The UK election has been transformed into something very interesting—indeed, radically different—as a result of this past week’s televised debate between David Cameron (Conservatives), Gordon Brown (Labour) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats). […]
There's nothing special about being special
A while back we commented on the potential fracturing of the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States. It’s been a one way street for some time now, as writers such […]
Gordon Brown at the Chilcot inquiry
Unlike his predecessor, Gordon Brown had a rather pleasant conversation with the Chilcot inquiry this afernoon. While Brown probably didn’t answer the questions people wanted him to answer, he accomplished what he set out to do–appear Prime Ministeral.
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