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In the theatre of schemes, A Merchant of Death disappoints

A newly-discovered work by the Bard could scarcely have generated more expectation than that surrounding Tony Blair’s Chilcot […]

John Ward January 29, 2010 Blair, Brown to face Chilcot

He who asks last laughs loudest

The public interest is the wrong way round: what Blair gets asked is almost more important than what […]

John Ward January 29, 2010 Blair, Michael Mansfield, questions, Sir Roderic Lyne, today from 9.30 am

The importance of disability

This is Edward. He is ugly, fat and unpleasant of manner. But Edward has an excuse for this, […]

John Ward January 28, 2010 Brown, Ed Balls, hypocrisy, Prescott, stammer

Chilcot ‘increasingly isolated’ as Opposition gets restive

Sir John Chilcot’s benign interviewing style is less and less to the taste of the Iraq Inquiry panel […]

John Ward January 27, 2010 Chilcot split update, Clare Short, Jack Straw-Goldsmith inconsistency, Nick Clegg

A debt of thanks

There are very few straight politicians in the world, but Clare Short is one of them. So too […]

John Ward January 27, 2010 Chilcot slot, Clare Short, Vince Cable

Sir Roderic adds some grit to Goldsmith’s massage

Sir Roderic Lyne has never forgiven the Blair regime for making a prat of him in 2003. Then […]

John Ward January 27, 2010 Chilcot Lyne's revenge

Exclusive: Chilcot panel split as Straw is recalled

Straw…ageing under the pressure? As exclusively predicted here yesterday, the Chilcot Inquiry has decided to recall one of […]

John Ward January 27, 2010 Chilcot recalls Straw, Goldsmith giving evidence, panel split

The difference between going into and coming out of recession

Very few observers are surprised by the way in which the rules pertinent to going into recession do […]

John Ward January 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Elizabeth drops concrete blocks gently into the snake pit

Elizabeth Wilmshurst gave a great deal of evidence at the Chilcot Inquiry this afternoon, but none at all […]

John Ward January 26, 2010 Blair, Chilcot, Goldsmith, Straw, Wilmshurst

New Iraq riddle: Cook told fellow MP ‘he had damning evidence’ against Blair

New allegations have surfaced about how vital information on a ‘secret Iraq deal’ was apparently suppressed by the […]

John Ward January 25, 2010 Blair, Brown, Chilcot, David Kelly, Robin Cook, secret Iraq deal, Wilmshurst evidence today

Exclusive: Clare Short to testify next Monday

Former overseas development secretary Clare Short will appear just one working day after Tony Blair’s evidence this Friday, […]

John Ward January 25, 2010 Chilcot, clare short date set, Hoon/Campbell face re-examination

Will Chilcot and Clegg turn out to be The Dambusters?

The coming week may well be cataclysmic for British politics. Both The Slog and its alma mater Not […]

John Ward January 24, 2010 Blair, Brown, Brown to face Chilcot, Clegg, Doncaster social services, Goldsmith, Mandelson's corruption, Sir Michael Wood

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