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Evening Standard column

Matthew D'Ancona

Gordon Brown meeting troops

The truth of how we let Iraq and our troops down

It is much to Sir John Chilcot's credit that the hearings of his Iraq inquiry will largely be held in public - starting tomorrow in Westminster

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Londoners must join forces for the Battle of Barking to stop BNP

Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity

Michael Caine and truth of Cameron's 'Broken Society'

Once in a while, a movie comes along that has genuine social and political content and deserves to be treated as a commentary on contemporary mores as well as a regular cinematic experience

How Labour has stopped caring what voters think

As my text for the coming week in politics, I pray for an outburst by No 10 enforcer Malcolm Tucker, from the wonderful new series of The Thick of It

Beware the Blair who seeks to rule all Europe

What is the French for "Things Can Only Get Better"? Something, I suppose, along the lines of: "Les Choses Ne Peuvent Que S'améliorer"

The political class has been rumbled

Just when you think the match is over, it turns out there's a second leg: or, in this case, Legg

Tories need their own treaty over Europe

It isn't as easy as it looks, is it? As the Conservative conference opens in Manchester today, David Cameron and his team have been given an unwelcome taste of what it is like to experience the full blast of pitiless scrutiny that comes with government - or, in their case, the assumption that you will very soon be in office. And, as ever with the Tory Party, it is Europe that has delivered the slap across the face.

‘We’ve read the history books, learned the lessons and drawn up the plan. This really is it’

On the eve of the Tory Conference, Matthew D’Ancona reveals the Shadow Cabinet battle plan and the secret fears of what might still go wrong

Resilience and hubris – Brown’s battle for life

Future historians trying to understand New Labour’s decline and fall should watch the Prime Minister’s interview with Andrew Marr

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