Alastair Campbell proposed legal threat to BBC amid Iraq war coverage row, files reveal
Government papers released to National Archives show animosity between broadcaster and No 10 in early 2000s
August 2020
Lord Hutton obituary
Former lord chief justice of Northern Ireland chosen to chair the inquiry into the death of the weapons expert David Kelly
May 2015
Media interview
BBC’s Diane Coyle: ‘Whittingdale, despite the headlines, is a good choice’
Outgoing BBC Trust vice chair on the impact of a Tory majority, the ‘shotgun’ licence fee deal – and Rona Fairhead
July 2013
Dr David Kelly: 10 years on, death of scientist remains unresolved for some
Dark Actors: The Life and Death of David Kelly, by Robert Lewis – review
February 2013
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
After the Hutton inquiry, how can any broadcaster claim to be free?
Peter Preston
Peter Preston: TV and radio journalists insist Leveson-style statutory regulation does not hamper them. But history (and Lord Patten) disagrees
November 2012
BBC reform: cut management and give more freedom to programme-makers
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali: Top-heavy management and a culture of self-censorship means staff are too scared to make the right decisions
October 2012
Greenslade
Jimmy Savile and the BBC - the story that just keeps on running...
Roy Greenslade
Jimmy Savile row: is it really the BBC's biggest crisis ever?
July 2012
Caroline Thomson, BBC's chief operating officer, to consider options
Tara Conlan: BBC's chief operating officer 'disappointed' to have missed out on becoming first-ever female director general and may now leave corporation
December 2011
David Kelly inquest challenge rejected by high court
Doctor denied permission to seek ruling that attorney general acted unlawfully by refusing to back new inquiry into the death
January 2011
Dave Hill on London
Ken Livingstone and Press TV
The former Mayor's decision to work for the Iranian TV station always was a bad one but some of the outrage directed at it recently is questionable too.
January 2010
Campbell: Blair wrote letters to Bush in 2002 saying 'we are with you' on Iraq
Letters raised prospect of British military backing for US, Tony Blair's former director of communications tells Chilcot inquiry
September 2009
BBC Trust under siege – but what is the alternative?
Politicians, rival broadcasters, BBC staff and viewers have all attacked the trust in recent months. By Maggie Brown
March 2009
Fast and furious
It's pacy, it's political - and it's all over in a quarter of an hour. Zinnie Harris on the challenges of writing a brief opera about Dr David Kelly
December 2006
Public has right to know why BBC apologised after Hutton, Dyke says
· Governors' decision was 'betrayal' of corporation · Tribunal to rule whether minutes can be published
November 2006
Lord Hutton defends David Kelly report
Lord Hutton today rounded on critics of his report into the death of the government weapons inspector David Kelly, insisting there was "no reasonable basis" for claims that it was a whitewash.
May 2006
PM: no offence meant by Hutton report auction
Tony Blair today insisted no offence was intended over the auction of a copy of the Hutton report on the death of Dr David Kelly reportedly signed by his wife Cherie Booth QC.
Labour attacked over 'sleazy' Hutton auction
A Tory MP has today written to Labour chair, Hazel Blears, demanding an apology for the party's 'monumental lack of judgment' in raising funds by auctioning a copy of the Hutton report signed by Cherie Blair.
MP to investigate Dr Kelly's death
A backbench MP is to investigate the 'unanswered questions' from the official inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly.
