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Denis MacShane keeps the blue flag flying. The European Union flag stands resplendent alongside the Union Jack in his office. It provides his computer with its screensaver. He is the [...]

As Tony Blair implores the nation to appreciate the benefits of the so-called special relationship, more evidence has emerged of the extent of the Bush administration's pressure on the British [...]

The cavernous Ministry of Defence on Whitehall has a new look. Gone are the overhead pipes that once gave the building the feel of an oversized submarine. In the internal [...]

I am not sure if there is such a person as a floating New Statesman voter. I am even less sure that he or she might fall into the warm […]

Which is the real Jack Straw? The man who did all he could to avoid war? The man who expressed concerns but bit his lip when the time came? Or […]

Nothing much has changed. That is the official line. The furore over Alan Milburn's appointment was overblown; Gordon Brown will soon get over it. The Blairites, having fought so hard […]

Some of the protagonists in the Iraq war are waiting to be judged by history. Others are not leaving it that long. The most assiduous self-justifier is Colin Powell. Courtesy [...]

Sir John Stevens likes to get out and about, to see his city for himself. Sometimes he manages to do that incognito; other times, he says, 'I've got people looking [...]

As he surveys the scene ten years on, the Prime Minister can congratulate himself that on one task, he has made extraordinary progress. The emasculation of the Conservative Party and [...]

The venerable Lord Butler has dangled Tony Blair over the precipice but declined to let him drop. Beneath the soft Whitehall language, his report contains some of the most coruscating […]

David Blunkett has a lot to get off his chest. Almost before I sit down, he embarks on a critique of 'what is wrong with the left in Europe': it [...]

Patricia Hewitt has hotfooted it from the Commons chamber to her little ministerial bolt-hole upstairs. She--with every other member of the cabinet who did not have a very good excuse--had […]

At the end of January, Tony Blair lobbied the Americans not to hold an inquiry into the elusive weapons of mass destruction. He did not want a committee to look [...]

What does the following statistic say about the state of British democracy? On 10 June the two parties that have governed the country for the past century may between them […]

It might seem strange to think of the man who has run the prison service over the past six years as a victim. Martin Narey is worried about the inexorable […]

As they ponder his demise, the people around Tony Blair are engaged in a desperate search for anything to extricate him from the Iraq mess. Nothing is being ruled out: [...]

It can't be easy being Charlie Falconer. He is Scottish. He is unelected. And he is a close friend of Tony Blair's. Still, he wears his burdens lightly: 'The way [...]

The Iraq War John Keegan Hutchinson, 254pp, £18.99 John Keegan, the veteran defence editor of the Daily Telegraph, is a man for whom I have considerable respect--although I disagree fundamentally […]

I don't imagine there are that many Slovaks who have seen a bloke in a skirt. As James McCarthy, a burly Scotsman, walked through the cobbled streets of Bratislava's old [...]

There is a nightmare in Downing Street and it goes like this. Hundreds of people are killed by bombs on the Underground. A previously unknown Islamist terrorist group linked to [...]

Charles Clarke invited me to see him because he thought I had become obsessed with Iraq. Talking to him about domestic issues, he thought, would do me good. In any […]

Within an hour of Gordon Brown delivering his Budget speech last year, Saddam Hussein was toppled from his plinth. The war was 'won'. Tony Blair was enjoined by some of [...]

Forget for a moment the legality of the war and the Attorney General's advice. Forget the reasons for the war and the elusive search for weapons of mass destruction. Take [...]

As with the intelligence, the legal foundations for Tony Blair's war with Iraq are being dismantled. Further investigations by the New Statesman--which last year revealed the Attorney General's concerns about [...]

As the presidential election campaign gathers pace this month, there are only two places for a self-respecting Muscovite to be seen: Chelsea and Courchevel. That is the paradox of Vladimir [...]

In the autumn of 2002, amid the flurry of new and 'compelling' reports that informants were providing from Iraq, Tony Blair asked his spy chiefs: 'We are sure about the [...]

Journalist as God was not part of the job description. Ten years ago, I, like others who covered Rwanda, was put in that position. For four weeks in July 1994, [...]

Charles Kennedy had just returned to his Commons Clair after announcing his party's plans to replace council tax. Riveting stuff,' he says by way of greeting. The Liberal Democrat leader [...]

The report ran to 1,800 pages. It was produced after hearings that captivated the nation. It presented a catalogue of deceit, secrecy, bullying and incompetence. And still the government got [...]