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Start with women and girls

When the United Nations General Assembly agreed the Sustainable Development Goals last September, it replaced a famously ambitious agenda – the Millennium Development Goals – with an agenda so far-reaching that critics immediately set about dismissing it as the stuff...

Chilcot: a sadness reprised

So now the dust begins to settle, at least insofar as it ever will when we talk about the events of 2003 in Iraq. I think back to that period in my life with a real sense of sadness, a feeling that has been reprised with the arrival of the Chilcot report. It was seven...

A struggle for Britishness

You can hear Simon Blackburn speak this Saturday at the Governing for Britain conference I have rewritten this article having given an interview to the Washington Post. I had originally written about the potentially vast and damaging economic impact of the decision to...

The power of conviction

I never doubted that Tony Blair thought he was doing the right thing. I said as much at the time. If there is one lesson from Chilcot, it is just how dangerous a powerful politician with convictions can be. The instinct to ask why you are right, not why you might be...