Some more random reflections prompted by events of the past week or so: The commentators’ consensus on Gordon Brown’s apparently successful teasing of David Cameron at PMQs on Wednesday about his and other Cameroons’ Eton educations (”[Tory]...

Two weeks ago, the UK press ran a sensational story about a patient, diagnosed by medical specialists as having been for years in persistent vegetative state (PVS) with no consciousness or ability to communicate, discovered through a state-of-the-art...

Barely a week into the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, two ex-mandarins’ evidence has pretty definitively acquitted Tony Blair of one of the gravest charges against him, and convicted him of another. In the testimony by Sir David Manning, the prime...

With the aim of assisting the Chilcot Inquiry with its preparations for questioning Tony Blair about how he led us into war with Iraq, I have put some key texts on my website — at http://www.barder.com/tony-blair-and-iraq-some-texts – in the hope...

. . . . . BBC Newsnight, 6 February, 2003  Jeremy Paxman and Tony Blair http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/2732979.stm JEREMY PAXMAN: … Will you give an undertaking to this audience, and indeed to the British people that before any...