The Prime Minister yesterday announced the setting up of an independent inquiry to look into lessons learned from the invasion of Iraq. The inquiry will begin next month and take at least a year to complete. It will cover the period from July 2001 to July 2009 and be chaired by Sir John Chilcot,...
Dispatches tonight will screen a documentary on a US attack on Azizabad in Afghanistan last August which killed 91 civilians, deaths which are still disputed by the US Central Command in Afghanistan. The attack, now known to have been precipitated by a false tip-off as a result of a blood feud...
The already microscopically minuscule credibility of the Quilliam Foundation has suffered yet another hugely embarrassing setback with the publication of a new report from the Redbridge Faith Forum. The report produced by Redbridge Faith Forum (RFF) for Redbridge Safer Communities...
The Prime Minster’s Cabinet reshuffle and announcement of a new team in the Foreign Office will do little to abate criticism of his government, particularly in respect of at least one of his new appointments. Ivan Lewis MP has joined the Foreign Office as Minister of State with...
In the wake of the expenses scandal and a bruising at the ballot box last week in European and county council elections, the Prime Minister on Thursday announced a series of reforms to be undertaken to improve the workings of the political system. Excerpts from the Prime Minister’s statement...
John Pilger reviews Obama’s speech in Cairo in a column in the New Statesman this week. ‘Obama demanded that the “cycle of suspicion and discord must end”. Every year, for more than a generation, the UN has called on Israel to end its illegal and violent occupation of post-1967...
Paul Richards, the former special adviser to Hazel Blears at the Department of Communities and Local Government, writes in the Jewish Chronicle this week on his expectations of Hazel Blears’ successor, John Denham. Richards writes: ‘As her [Blears’] adviser, I saw first-hand the pressures...
The Daily Express came over all moralistic yesterday reacting to Nick Griffin’s criticisms of the manner in which the paper covered the BNP’s European election campaign. Before the BNP leader was forced to retreat to his car in Westminster, he held up copies of the Daily Express and...
ENGAGE has sent an open letter to both President Obama and the US Ambassador to the UK in response to the President’s speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4th. You can read the ENGAGE open letter here.
The editor of the Oldham Chronicle, Jim Williams, has replied to our letter of complaint over the paper’s use of the word ‘giant’ in its headline on a building project in Oldham being approved by the local council. Mr Williams wrote: ‘Thanks for your letter. I would just point out that...
