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Colonel Tim Collins

December 2011

  • A police passing out parade in Hendon

    Crime and justice blog
    Police Commissioners: Time for an Ann Widdicombe recall?

    Alan Travis: Labour and Tories want to find candidates for next year's police commissioner elections but who is going to stand?

November 2011

  • DEFENCE Collins 2

    John Harris's national conversations
    John Harris's national conversations podcast: Tim Collins

    Colonel Tim Collins, former commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment during the Iraq war, talks to John Harris

September 2010

  • Colonel Tim Collins

    Iraq postwar plan was non-existent, says Colonel Tim Collins

    Veteran officer says leaders had no ideas for aftermath of invasion, and calls for end to miltary culture of 'obsequiousness'

April 2009

  • North Korea launches rocket

    Guardian Daily
    Guardian Daily: North Korea to resume nuclear programme

    North Korea walks out of nuclear talks; Blairites blast Gordon Brown over smear emails; and Col Tim Collins on Iraq, in our daily audio show with Jon Dennis

  • Iraq: the legacy
    Sir Jeremy Greenstock and Colonel Tim Collins reflect on the Iraq war

    Sir Jeremy Greenstock and Colonel Tim Collins are voices on the lessons learnt from war in Iraq

  • Iraq: the legacy
    Iraq war analysis: Tim Collins

    The former lieutenant-colonel – famous for his passionate speech to troops before the invasion – looks back on Britain's involvement in the Iraq war

January 2009

  • General David Petraeus, London 2007

    The Bush years
    General David Petraeus by Colonel Tim Collins

    General David Petraeus encapsulates the modern warrior: thinker, diplomat and man of action

December 2008

  • We're going - and good riddance

    Tim Collins

    Tim Collins: The UK is to evacuate its forces from southern Iraq, handing over to the US. I fear they will not be much missed

March 2008

  • TV review
    Last night's TV: 10 Days to War

    Col Tim Collins had shades of Henry V. No wonder Branagh played him so well

February 2007

  • Should soldiers be able to opt out of wars?

    Tim Collins
    Tim Collins: Last June, army lieutenant Ehren Watada became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq on the grounds that he found the war illegal and immoral.

December 2005

  • Army officer wins libel case

    2pm: A senior Army officer has accepted libel damages over a claim in the Mail on Sunday that he was involved in an alleged conspiracy to bring down Iraq war commander Colonel Tim Collins. By Jason Deans.

October 2005

  • Let battalions go, says Gulf War hero

    Colonel Tim Collins warned unionists yesterday to stop getting emotional about the future of the Royal Irish Regiment.

September 2005

  • This is a mess of our own making

    Tim Collins
    Tim Collins: When I led my men of the 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment across the border into Iraq we believed we were going to do some good. Clearly I was naive.

July 2005

  • Straight from the heart

    On Monday, Marie Fatayi-Williams stood near Tavistock Square, where her son Anthony is feared to have been killed in last week's bus bombing, and delivered a lament of extraordinary power for her lost son. Tim Collins, the British army colonel who himself gave a historic speech on the eve of the Iraq war, says such genuine emotion is rarely forgotten.

June 2005

  • The Editor press review
    Rules of Engagement by Tim Collins

  • Historical perspectives

May 2005

  • Back into battle

    His speech to the troops on the eve of the Iraq war made Colonel Tim Collins a national hero and media star. But his fame earned him enemies and accusations from both media and military. Now that he has cleared his name he is rebutting his critics and looking to a future outside the army.

April 2005

  • Election 2005
    Conservatives on the war

    The Conservatives had planned to go on education this morning, with spokesman Tim Collins joining Michael Howard on stage. However, the overnight revelations of the attorney general's initial legal musings on Iraq look set to blow that plan out of the water.

  • Election 2005
    'Our nation'

    Here's Tim Collins, the Conservative shadow education secretary, speaking earlier today:

  • Election 2005
    Never mind the phonics

    Polly Curtis writes: Are the Tories getting their phonics in a twist? This morning Michael Howard said they would replace Labour's national literacy strategy with phonics, a "traditional, proven" method. The shadow education secretary, Tim Collins, later clarified that by this they meant "synthetic phonics". But synthetic phonics have only been introduced at all into schools since 1998 as a small element in the Labour government's literacy strategy.

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