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Tony Blair: “the lies, deceits, duplicities and fudges”
July 21, 2016
Philippe Sands is professor of law at UCL and a barrister at Matrix Chambers. His review of the Report of the Iraq Inquiry by John Chilcot appears in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. See: A Grand and Disastrous Deceit (LRB, Vol. 38 No.15, 28 July 2016).* Professor Sands introduces the 12-volume, […]
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The Iraq Inquiry – then and now
July 6, 2016
Sir John Chilcot has delivered a devastating critique of Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, with his long-awaited report concluding that Britain chose to join the US invasion before “peaceful options for disarmament” had been exhausted. See: Chilcot delivers crushing verdict on Blair and the Iraq war (Luke Harding, Guardian […]
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PM Harper: A burden on Canada
June 18, 2015
In the second of a two-part series, Bruce Livesey, writing for the National Observer, lays out a litany of decisions made by Prime Minister Harper that have undermined Canada’s reputation globally (“Is Harper the worst prime minister in history? Part two,” National Observer, 7 June 2015): “Indeed, back in 2010, when Canada sought a seat on the […]
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