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Action on Sugar doesn’t think much of David Cameron’s childhood obesity strategy, but will May do any better?
As the world picks over the Iraq Inquiry’s final report, three fascinating character portraits have emerged.
Iraq’s supposedly sky-high child mortality rate was a key part of Blair’s case for war, and he was still making it years later – but it seems to have been based on a single dubious study.
What has the Chilcot Inquiry actually achieved? Here’s what the experts had to say.
The anti-war movement was visible everywhere in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq – but it made fundamental mistakes that hamstrung its campaign.
Compared with other attempts to mend deep wounds after wars and conflicts, the Chilcot Report falls depressingly short.
Intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was a core part of the case for war. The Chilcot Report has examined how it came to be so distorted.
From faulty intelligence and inadequate oversight to disastrously poor planning, the Iraq War was a mess from the start.
Tony Blair insists to this day that his decision to go to war in Iraq was made in good faith. Does that make him any less culpable?
The Iraq Inquiry has found that the case for invading Iraq was far from watertight and made without proper care. Deception, however, is another matter.
British political life increasingly revolves around expensive investigations that make a fetish of looking backwards.
When blame is allocated for going to war in 2003, save some for the UK press.
As the Chilcot report finally sees the light of day, the former leader’s motives need to be seen in their full context.
The populist appeal of simplistic answers to complex solutions is a challenge for political leaders.There are times when expertise and experience must prevail over the popular mood of the moment.
Behind the parochial media focus on the political manoeuvring within a divided Conservative Party, national decisions don’t get much more important than the UK’s referendum on its EU membership.
Corporate wrongdoing is underpinned by a morality that many of us have voted for.
A party can have the most brilliantly informed and farsighted policies. But if the protagonists cannot communicate these effectively to the electorate, they will be overlooked.
There’s an argument to be made for the old way of doing things.
May 2016 sees contests for the position of elected mayor in four major cities across England.
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