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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Party leaders and spokespeople reserve particular criticism for Tony Blair

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Mark Brophy
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Daniel Zeichner
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Stephen Hopgood
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Chilcot needs to ask why a small island with a stretched military budget contemplated a Middle East invasion in the first place

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Rebecca Vincent
5 July, 2016

A constituent writes to the Foreign Secretary over his and Theresa May’s post-Brexit haggling with people’s lives

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Adam Barnett
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