(c) Pete Ashton
On the 15th February 2003, seven years ago to the day; six million people in sixty countries worldwide came out to protest against the Iraq War. In London, some estimates suggested that as …

(c) World Economic Forum
In the summer of 1940, over 300,000 British troops were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. Britain was on the verge of collapse as the Nazis carried out their terrifying Blitz, sunk …

(c) buggolo
If you think of an image of Britain in the first ten years of the 21st century, you may think of the queue of people outside Northern Rock, stretchers carrying the wounded from the …

‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran…’ Oh how we laughed at John McCain. ‘There he goes again, singing about bombing Iran’, some said. The idea of military action has been sitting for a while at …

Tony Blair is a politically astute individual. This makes his choice of words when discussing with Fern Britton the invasion of Iraq all the more puzzling.

Robert Scoble (c)
Tony Blair today admitted that he would have ‘invaded Iraq anyway’, regardless of whether there had been evidence for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Such an admission pretty much closes one part of the …

(c) Marcus Povey
The Chilcot Inquiry intends to look at the UK involvement with Iraq for the period between mid 2001 and July 2009. That might sound broad and indeed yes, it is. These inquiries don’t …

(c) Trish Mayo
As has been well publicised, it is 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The lessons of the defeat of the Soviet Union are far reaching and more pertinent than ever …

When the historians come to write the obituary of the outgoing Labour government what will they say was the greatest missed opportunity of their 13 year reign? The failure to overturn decades of British hostility to the EU.

(c) Chor Ip
Eight years down the road from September 11th 2001, it is hard to imagine that all that time has gone by. I’m sure we all remember that day vividly, how we found out …