The 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks took place in New York City on Saturday. This marked two decades since four fully loaded US commercial jets were brought down by hijackers affiliated with the Islamist group al-Qaeda. The ceremony focused on One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western hemisphere that now…
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We should not be rushing the Chilcot inquiry
On 18th October, the Mail on Sunday published a leaked memo, first sent in preparation for the infamous meeting held between George W. Bush and Tony Blair at the former president’s ranch in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. The document, sent to Bush by the then US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, consists of only…
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How long will we wait for the Chilcot Inquiry?
The biggest stain upon the New Labour government, and the event which delivered perhaps some of the best satire of recent years: BLair, the Iraq war refuses to be forgotten. In 2009 Gordon Brown announced the Chilcot Inquiry would look into Britain’s role in the Iraq War and score a line under the unfortunate chapter…
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