45-minute WMD claim 'may have come from an Iraqi taxi driver'
Tory MP and defence specialist Adam Holloway says MI6 got information indirectly from a taxi driver who had heard Iraqi military commanders talking about weapons
Open up the Iraq war inquiry
Brian Jones
Brian Jones: I published my submissions to the Hutton and Butler hearings in a spirit of openness that I feel is lacking in the Chilcot inquiry
Politics blog
The new 45-minute claim – it's all about timing
Michael White: Tory MP Adam Holloway's assertion that the 45-minute WMD claim came from an Iraqi taxi driver is an interesting detail but not much more
November 2009
We want Blair's head. But Chilcot won't give it to us
Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins: The parliament that approved the war now bays for his blood. This inquiry is a way of getting MPs off the hook
The Iraq inquiry sideshow
Chris Ames
Chris Ames: Leaks are showing up John Chilcot's inquiry, as secrecy prevails – but perhaps he's about to publish a raft of documents ...
Chilcot inquiry: Healing the wounds of war
The country needs the Iraq inquiry. What a shame it will be a whitewash
Carne Ross
Sir John Chilcot 'wrong man to head Iraq invasion inquiry'
October 2009
liberty central
The Iraq inquiry digested
Chris Ames
Chris Ames: With the Chilcot hearings opening soon, concerned citizens have set up a website to interpret the evidence. Please join us
July 2009
My alternative to another round of Iraq whitewashing
Marina Hyde
Marina Hyde: Let's avoid the messianic self-deprecation and get down to a good public drubbing. On the fourth plinth, for preference
June 2009
A timely inquiry into the Iraq war
Jonathan Steele
Jonathan Steele: We need an open, relatively speedy investigation questioning the legality, policy advice and consequences of the invasion
November 2007
Facts speak for themselves
Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders: Robert Fox is wrong: we might not have interviewed the former PM aggressively, but there's no way we were soft on Tony Blair
August 2007
Draft measures
Chris Ames
Chris Ames: The government has covered up the truth about the genesis of the 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq for four years, but who has the most explaining to do?
May 2007
Butler service and Perle before swine
Philippe Sands
What the Butler said
Richard Norton-Taylor
March 2007
What the Butler didn't see
Chris Ames
Chris Ames: It is only too apparent that the September 2002 dossier was meant to bolster the case for war - and that makes Lord Butler's inquiry look decidedly shabby.
November 2006
The freedom of the press officer
Martin Bright
Martin Bright: Now we know that a spin doctor wrote a first draft of the WMD dossier, it is time for the government to make full disclosure.
