Felicity Arbuthnot
The banners and placards outside London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre reflected an anger undiminished since maybe two million people marched against the war in the city on 15th February 2003
The ICC will examine the Chilcot Inquiry Report for evidence of abuse and torture by British soldiers but have ruled out putting Tony Blair on trial for war crimes
"It's really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. You don't just invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests." (John Kerry, "Meet the Press, 2nd March 2014)
It seems no radio, television news or current affairs programme is without Blair giving his opinion on the upcoming UK referendum on whether to stay in the European Union
Charles Anthony Lynton Blair is beyond all shame. No matter how widely the guilt is spread, he was Captain of the No 10 Downing Street ship, and thus should shoulder commensurate blame.
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." (Albert Camus 1913-1960).
It is hard to imagine that anything worse could befall Fallujah after the war crimes and criminal assaults by the US military in 2004
"Hypocrisy, the most protected of vices." Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673)
Since terrorism is again in the news, it is timely to revisit one of the biggest acts of terrorism in modern history - the illegal invasion and destruction - ongoing - of Iraq
It is hard to believe anything more catastrophic could befall Iraq. Now though comes a truly apocalyptic warning - that Mosul itself, Baji, Tikrit, ancient Samarra could be engulfed in a flood of literally biblical proportions