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Simon Mann in handcuffs

Simon Mann's road to freedom

As British 'dog of war' comes home, Stephen Robinson looks at the politics behind his release and what the future might hold for him

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Boris Johnson sacked me because he felt threatened, says Sir Ian Blair

When head of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, walked into the Mayor's office last October, he saw a far tougher side to the usually ebullient Boris Johnson

How the BBC survives

Despite attacks from media rivals and politicians of both parties, Lord Reith's ever-burgeoning institution seems to survive - and even strengthen

Fear and loathing inside the BBC

A BBC reporter, asked for his assessment of the quality of the management of the corporation, answers the question with an anecdote. He recalls how he was walking through Television Centre a few days ago and observed Jana Bennett

Friend of George Clooney and Matt Damon who held Gordon Brown to account over Libya

It was lawyer Jason McCue who succeeded in putting Libyan compensation to IRA victims back on the political agenda. Now he says he has BP in his sights

London's Libyan lobby

As Colonel Gaddafi's son suggests the Lockerbie bomber's release was linked to oil, we reveal how our capital has become the powerbase for Libya's rehabilitation

When does a woman become a man?

The gender row over the new 800m women’s champion is no surprise as the sexes have been getting closer for years

Tom Bower has the last laugh

Biographer Tom Bower has vanquished press baron Richard Desmond. Stephen Robinson watched the courtroom libel drama unfold

Iran's sorry tale of two embassies

It was the sort of response that shows the other side holds all the cards. "Unacceptable," said the Foreign Secretary of the Iranian government's arrest over the weekend of up to nine locally hired Iranian staff working at the British embassy in Tehran

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