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Anti-trafficking groups attack 'ill-considered' Coalition policy

11.02.11
The Government was today accused of a 'staggering lack of understanding' of how to deal with human trafficking... more

David Miliband can’t do both politics and TV

11.01.11
The relationship between politicians and journalists is founded on mutual envy and contempt... more

Tony Blair dismissed minister's concerns over 'disastrous' Iraq plans

06.07.10
Tony Blair rejected a minister's concerns about Britain's 'disastrous' planning for rebuilding post-invasion Iraq, newly-released documents have revealed... more

Sir John Chilcot asks lawyers: Was Iraq war legal?

29.06.10
An official verdict on the legality of the Iraq war creeps closer after the Chilcot inquiry calls for international lawyers to submit their views on the conflict... more

Indhu Rubasingham: We got too scared of feminism

09.06.10
Women, Power and Politics is the Tricycle’s latest cycle of new plays by some of our best female writers — and it couldn’t be more timely, director Indhu Rubasingham tells Johanna Thomas-Corr.... more

PM to reveal if Tony Blair alone took us to war

04.03.10
Gordon Brown's appearance before Iraq inquiry will last little over half the time of Tony Blair’s grandstand performance there — but it could prove even more significant... more

Tony Blair ‘went to war because he was obsessed with his legacy’

02.02.10
Gordon Brown complained Tony Blair went to war in Iraq because he was 'obsessed with his legacy', former Cabinet minister Clare Short reveals... more

Tony Blair faces Iraq inquiry recall amid doubts over his answers

01.02.10
Ex-prime minister is expected to be recalled as unanswered questions persist over his account of the toppling of Saddam Hussein... more

Whitehall refused Army request for more Iraq troops

16.12.09
British military chiefs pleaded for more troops to stabilise post-war Iraq but were overruled by Whitehall, a former senior Army chief reveal... more

Hoon stopped me buying essential kit for troops, says Forces chief

03.12.09
British military chiefs were prevented from ordering equipment and mobilising reserves for the invasion of Iraq because Tony Blair wanted to keep his war plans secret, it has emerged... more

London film-maker arrested for carrying bomb props

12.11.09
First-time London film-maker was arrested by Italian police who mistook mocked-up prop documents on bomb-making for the real thing... more

City Spy: Who is spinning fast over UKFI?

14.07.09
UK Financial Investments, the quango set up to look after taxpayer stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scoltand, is clearly unhappy about the amount of media attention it is attracting ... more

Why Gordon Brown is all at sea in the Iraq inquiry

24.06.09
Gordon Brown wants an unsparing inquiry into Iraq. Except he doesn't want it now, as the US troops withdraw... more

Ex-minister pays the price for ghost mortgage

14.05.09
Former minister Elliot Morley was suspended as a Labour MP after it emerged he claimed £16,000 for a mortgage that did not exist... more

Mo’s husband, a Labour stalwart and champion in the City, dies at 53

06.02.09
Jon Norton, who was married to former Ulster Secretary Mo Mowlam, has died... more

I’m over 50 but you ain’t seen nothing yet

29.01.09
The future is scary, especially for working women, who are losing jobs faster than men in the recession... more

Brown: Troops have completed the task and leave a better place

17.12.08
A withdrawal of troops from Iraq is confirmed, fuelling speculation that more will be sent to Afghanistan... more

Rushdie wins apology for 'appalling lies' in book

26.08.08
Sir Salman Rushdie has accepted an unreserved apology in the High Court from a former police driver who claimed the author had profited from the fatwa on his life... more

Following Fawlty

05.11.07
The Two Chairmen pub restaurant follows the Basil Fawlty Guide to Entertaining, says Mark Bolland.... more

Extended run for play on the case against Blair

03.05.07
A play indicting the Prime Minister for aggression against Iraq is to continue for an extra three weeks.... more

Blair put on trial over Iraq

24.04.07
Tony Blair is investigated by the International Criminal Court to see if he could be indicted for aggression against Iraq in Called To Account, a remarkable piece of political theatre.... more

Can the Tricycle call Blair to account?

10.04.07
In the absence of a public inquiry, director Nicolas Kent is staging his own tribunal to test whether the Prime Minister should go on trial for 'the crime of aggression against Iraq'.... more


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