Chilcot Inquiry Articles

All of the lessons of the Chilcot report need to be studied in detail before any hard conclusions can be reached about the role of intelligence in our political system. To rush to hard conclusions about the importance of intelligence to our national security...

It was the Iraq war that dominated prime minister’s questions today. Diane Abbott appeared regal in the House to ask a question on the inquiry and reminded us what a more representative parliament might look like. There were a lot of questions from the army of smarmy...

The news that the Chilcot report will be released after the election has suffocated coverage of a magisterial report from the Foreign affairs committee about Iraqi Kurdistan. Once again, we generally see Iraq as a domestic issue at the expense of where Iraqis are now....

Here we go again. John Chilcot's official Iraq inquiry, which was established in 2009 and has yet to report, has already lasted longer than the first world war and slightly less long so far than the second world war, and continues to generate more heat than light. The...